Bhargava–de Pascale–Koenig conjecture on Sylow subgroups of random bipartite sandpile groups

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Let n1≥n2n_1\geq n_2 be positive integers, let 0<u<10<u<1, and let G(n1,n2,u)G(n_1,n_2,u) be the Erdős–Rényi random bipartite graph whose bipartition has vertex sets of sizes n1n_1 and n2n_2, with each possible edge included independently with probability uu. For fixed 0<α≤10<\alpha\leq 1, write Gα(n,u)=G(n,⌈αn⌉,u)G_{\alpha}(n,u)=G(n,\lceil\alpha n\rceil,u), and let SGα(n,u)S_{G_{\alpha}(n,u)} be its sandpile group. For a prime pp, write (SGα(n,u))p(S_{G_{\alpha}(n,u)})_p for its Sylow pp-subgroup. Let GG be a finite abelian pp-group. The Sylow-subgroup distribution conjecture. If 0<u<10<u<1 and 1p<α≤1\frac{1}{p}<\alpha\leq 1, then

lim⁡n→∞P[(SGα(n,u))p≅G]=P∞,pSym⁡(G)\lim_{n\to\infty}\mathbb{P}\big[(S_{G_{\alpha}(n,u)})_p\cong G\big]=P^{\operatorname{Sym}}_{\infty,p}(G)

when pp is odd, whereas

lim⁡n→∞P[(SGα(n,u))2≅G]=∣G/2G∣2P∞,2Sym⁡(G).\lim_{n\to\infty}\mathbb{P}\big[(S_{G_{\alpha}(n,u)})_2\cong G\big]=\frac{|G/2G|}{2}P^{\operatorname{Sym}}_{\infty,2}(G).

The odd-prime assertion is proved in the paper's main theorem, while the corresponding assertion for p=2p=2 remains the conjectural part. The result describes the limiting Sylow-subgroup distribution of sandpile groups of dense random bipartite graphs.

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Deepesh Singhal, “Distribution of Sandpile groups of random bipartite graphs”, arXiv:2607.10056 (2026).

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