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Maximality Levels of the classical permutation group in the quantum permutation group

Quantum Algebra 2026-03-24 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

Progress on the conjecture of Banica and Bichon that the classical permutation group is a maximal quantum subgroup of the quantum permutation group remains limited to a handful of small-parameter results. By Tannaka--Krein duality, any counterexample to this Maximality Conjecture must arise from a category strictly intermediate between the category NC\mathcal{NC} of non-crossing partitions and the category P\mathcal{P} of all partitions. Any such exotic category must therefore contain a linear combination of crossing-partition vectors. The categories generated by NC\mathcal{NC} together with some such vectors are studied, with a number of generation results. It is shown that no exotic category can contain a linear combination of three crossing-partition vectors, and, at N=6N=6, there is no exotic category containing a linear combination of 31 crossing-partition vectors that is distinguished from NC\mathcal{NC} or P\mathcal{P} at moments of order six.

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@article{arxiv.2603.21759,
  title  = {Maximality Levels of the classical permutation group in the quantum permutation group},
  author = {J. P. McCarthy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.21759},
  year   = {2026}
}

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