Etingof's generalized Benson conjecture for semisimplified representation categories

Let pp be a prime integer, let GG be a pp-group, let k\Bbbk be a field of characteristic pp, and let rep(G)\overline{\operatorname{rep}}(G) denote the semisimplification of the tensor category of finite-dimensional representations of GG over k\Bbbk. Let C\mathcal{C} be a tensor subcategory of rep(G)\overline{\operatorname{rep}}(G) equivalent to rep(G)\operatorname{rep}(G') for a finite group GG' whose order is coprime to pp.

Generalized Benson conjecture. Every prime dividing the order of GG' is less than pp.

This is Etingof's proposed generalization of Benson's conjecture to arbitrary primes, formulated through tensor subcategories of semisimplified representation categories. The supplied text says that the naive assertion that every pp'-representation is pp'-invertible fails for p=3p=3, while the generalized conjecture is presented without a resolution.

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Kent B. Vashaw and Justin Zhang, “Non-negligible summands in tensor powers of some modular representations of finite p-groups”, arXiv:2508.15730 (2026).

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