Woldar's purely singular splitting conjecture

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Let kk be a positive integer and write S(k)={1,2,…,k}S(k)=\{1,2,\dots,k\}. Let GG be a finite abelian group. Say that S(k)S(k) splits GG if there is a subset T⊆GT\subseteq G such that the translates represented by S(k)⋅TS(k)\cdot T give G∖{0}G\setminus\{0\}, and say that the splitting is purely singular if every prime divisor of ∣G∣|G| divides some element of S(k)S(k). Woldar's conjecture. If S(k)S(k) splits a finite abelian group GG purely singularly, then GG is one of Z1\mathbb{Z}_1, Zk+1\mathbb{Z}_{k+1}, or Z2k+1\mathbb{Z}_{2k+1}. Woldar proposed this classification in 1995, and it was verified by Hickerson for all k≤3000k\leq 3000; the conjecture concerns the remaining values of kk.

References

Primary source

Ka Hin Leung and Tao Zhang, “A proof of purely singular splitting conjecture”, arXiv:2605.09871 (2026).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2002.11872.

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