Uniform boundedness conjecture for fixers of finite primitive permutation groups

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Let GG be a finite primitive permutation group on Ω\Omega, with point stabiliser HH, and define

ρ0(G):=max{KHΩ:KG is a fixer}.\rho_0(G):=\max\left\{\frac{|K|}{|H|\sqrt{|\Omega|}}:K\leqslant G\text{ is a fixer}\right\}.

Uniform boundedness conjecture. There exists an absolute constant cc such that ρ0(G)<c\rho_0(G)<c for all finite primitive permutation groups GG. This conjecture asserts that the largest fixer, normalized by the order of a point stabiliser and the square root of the permutation degree, is uniformly bounded across all finite primitive permutation groups. Its status is not established in the supplied text.

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Hong Yi Huang, Cai Heng Li and Yi Lin Xie, “Fixers and derangements of finite permutation groups”, arXiv:2404.18753 (2025).

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