Conder's conjecture on simple groups with cosets of p-elements

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Let SS be a simple group, let pp be a prime, and let PP be a Sylow pp-subgroup of SS. A group element is a pp-element if its order is a power of pp. Conder's conjecture. If a nontrivial coset PgPg consists entirely of pp-elements, then P=5|P|=5. The conjecture is motivated by the rarity of simple groups with this property and is supported by considerable evidence, but it remains open.

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Ru Zhang and Rulin Shen, “On Zappa's question in the case of alternating groups”, arXiv:2603.09369 (2026).

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