Hong's divisibility conjecture for gcd-closed sets satisfying condition G
Let and be positive integers with , and let be a finite gcd-closed set of positive integers. For each , let denote the set of greatest-type divisors of in . Two distinct greatest-type divisors of satisfy condition if and . The set satisfies condition if every either has , or has and every two distinct greatest-type divisors of satisfy condition . Let and denote the corresponding power LCM matrices, and let be the ring of integer matrices. Hong's conjecture. If is gcd-closed and satisfies condition , then divides in ; equivalently, there is a matrix such that or . Hong's conjecture extends the known result for FC sets, since every FC set is gcd-closed and satisfies condition , but its general case remains open.
References
Primary source
Guangyan Zhu, “Gcd-closed sets and divisibility among power LCM matrices”, arXiv:2606.08075 (2026).
Additional references
4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2025–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2603.26350, arXiv:2510.05595, arXiv:2510.04799.
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