Hall–Paige conjecture on transversals of Cayley tables

For a finite group GG, let L(G)L(G) be its Cayley table. The Hall–Paige condition is the condition that the sum of the elements of GG is the identity in the abelianisation Gab=G/GG^{\mathrm{ab}}=G/G', equivalently that every Sylow 22-subgroup of GG is trivial or non-cyclic. A transversal of L(G)L(G) selects one entry from each row, column, and group element. Hall–Paige conjecture. For any finite group GG, L(G)L(G) has a transversal if and only if GG satisfies the Hall–Paige condition. The conjecture was proved in 2009 using the classification of finite simple groups, in work of Wilcox, Evans and Bray.

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Primary source

Richard Montgomery, “Recent progress in graph theory using expansion”, arXiv:2607.26049 (2026).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2406.19873.

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