Hall–Paige conjecture on transversals of Cayley tables
For a finite group , let be its Cayley table. The Hall–Paige condition is the condition that the sum of the elements of is the identity in the abelianisation , equivalently that every Sylow -subgroup of is trivial or non-cyclic. A transversal of selects one entry from each row, column, and group element. Hall–Paige conjecture. For any finite group , has a transversal if and only if 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.
References
Primary source
Richard Montgomery, “Recent progress in graph theory using expansion”, arXiv:2607.26049 (2026).
Additional references
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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