Character-table characterization of totally extremal ideal Perron similarities

A normalized ideal Perron similarity is a similarity matrix with the normalization and ideal Perron properties defined in the surrounding paper. It is totally extremal when every entry associated with its Perron-similarity polytope is an extremal point.

Character-table conjecture. If SS is a normalized ideal Perron similarity and SS is totally extremal, then SS is the character table of a finite Abelian group.

This proposes that total extremality characterizes character tables of finite Abelian groups among normalized ideal Perron similarities. The source presents it as a question for further inquiry; no resolution is supplied here.

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David Z. Gershnik, Alexander J. Lewis and Pietro Paparella, “Character tables are ideal Perron similarities”, arXiv:2508.02830 (2026).

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