The cyclicity conjecture for finite groups from skew-plane configurations

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Let L={L∞,L0,L1,…,Lr}⊂PC2n+1\mathcal L=\{L_\infty,L_0,L_1,\dots,L_r\}\subset \mathbb{P}^{2n+1}_{\mathbb C}, with n>1n>1, and let GLG_{\mathcal L} be the associated group generated by the transformations determined by the configuration.

Cyclicity conjecture. If GLG_{\mathcal L} is finite, then GLG_{\mathcal L} is cyclic.

Examples in characteristic zero show that several natural non-cyclic candidates, including examples with finite-order generators, nevertheless generate infinite groups. These observations motivate the conjecture that the cyclic case exhausts all finite possibilities.

References

Primary source

Giuseppe Favacchio and Jake Kettinger, “Collinearly complete sets and finite subgroups from configurations of skew n-planes in P^2n+1_K”, arXiv:2607.11259 (2026).

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