Alternating-group Beauville structure conjecture for prescribed hyperbolic types

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For positive integers (r,s,t)(r,s,t), call the type hyperbolic when

1r+1s+1t<1.\frac{1}{r}+\frac{1}{s}+\frac{1}{t}<1.

Let T(r,s,t)T(r,s,t) denote the corresponding hyperbolic triangle group. An unmixed Beauville structure is written v=(a1,c1;a2,c2)v=(a_1,c_1;a_2,c_2), with (a1,c1)(a_1,c_1) and (a2,c2)(a_2,c_2) having specified types.

Alternating-group Beauville structure conjecture. Let (r,s,t)(r,s,t) and (r,s,t)(r',s',t') be two hyperbolic types. Then almost all alternating groups An{\mathcal{A}}_n have an unmixed Beauville structure

v=(a1,c1;a2,c2)v=(a_1,c_1;a_2,c_2)

where (a1,c1)(a_1,c_1) has type (r,s,t)(r,s,t) and (a2,c2)(a_2,c_2) has type (r,s,t)(r',s',t').

The claim is presented as suggestive, and the supplied status evidence resolves it in the context of the paper; the source also identifies it as a variation of Higman's conjecture, proved by B. Everitt in 2000.

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Ingrid Bauer, Fabrizio Catanese and Fritz Grunewald, “Chebycheff and Belyi polynomials, dessins d'enfants, Beauville surfaces and group theory”, arXiv:math/0605258 (2006).

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