Shortest-path bisaturation conjecture for transfer system lattices

Let GG be a group, and consider the Hasse diagram of its lattice of GG-transfer systems. A path has length equal to its number of edges; a shortest path between two transfer systems is a path with the minimal possible length. A transfer system is bisaturated when it has both saturation and cosaturation.

Shortest-path bisaturation conjecture. A shortest path between the trivial GG-transfer system and the complete GG-transfer system on a Hasse diagram will pass through as many bisaturated transfer systems as possible.

The conjecture concerns how saturation properties are distributed along shortest paths in transfer system lattices. The examples show that shortest paths need not be unique and need not pass through all bisaturated transfer systems; the conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Sarah Klanderman, Chloe Lewis, Harlea Monson, Koki Shibata and Danika Van Niel, “Characterizing Transfer Systems for Non-Abelian Groups”, arXiv:2511.13439 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2311.10014, arXiv:2008.09179.

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