Duncan's Sylow-subgroup criterion for versal group actions
Let be a field, let be a finite group, and let be a -variety with a faithful -action. For every prime , let be a Sylow -subgroup of . Duncan's conjecture. The variety is -versal if and only if it is -versal for every prime . The conjecture proposes that versality of a faithful finite group action can be detected on Sylow subgroups. It is refuted by a counterexample: an action of on a degree- Del Pezzo surface.
References
Primary source
Federico Scavia, “A counterexample to a conjecture of Duncan on versal actions”, arXiv:2607.25118 (2026).
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