Hall–Paige conjecture on transversals of Cayley tables
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.
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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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