Michael Vaughan-Lee

  1. Non-PORC behaviour of a class of descendant $p$-groups.

    Authors: Marcus du Sautoy, Michael Vaughan-Lee
    Subjects: Group Theory
    Abstract

    We prove that the number of immediate descendants of order $p^10$ of SG_p$ is
    not PORC (Polynomial On Residue Classes) where $G_p$ is the $p$-group of order
    $p^9$ defined by du Sautoy's nilpotent group encoding the elliptic curve
    $y^2=x^3-x$. This has important implications for Higman's PORC conjecture.

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