An asymptotic for the Hall–Paige conjecture

Sean Eberhard; Freddie Manners; Rudi Mrazović

doi:10.1016/j.aim.2022.108423

An asymptotic for the Hall–Paige conjecture

Sean Eberhard^*, Freddie Manners^*, Rudi Mrazović^*

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Abstract

Hall and Paige conjectured in 1955 that a finite group G has a complete mapping if and only if its Sylow 2-subgroups are trivial or noncyclic. This conjecture was proved in 2009 by Wilcox, Evans, and Bray using the classification of finite simple groups and extensive computer algebra. Using a completely different approach motivated by the circle method from analytic number theory, we prove that the number of complete mappings of any group G of order n satisfying the Hall–Paige condition is (e^−1/2+o(1))|G^ab|n!²/nⁿ.

Original language	English
Article number	108423
Journal	Advances in Mathematics
Volume	404
Issue number	Part A
Early online date	28 Apr 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2022.108423
Publication status	Published - 06 Aug 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
SE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 803711 ); RM is supported in part by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project UIP-2017-05-4129 (MUNHANAP).

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Keywords

Hall–Paige conjecture
Latin squares
Transversals

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An asymptotic for the Hall–Paige conjecture

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