Maximality Levels of the classical permutation group in the quantum permutation group
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 of non-crossing partitions and the category of all partitions. Any such exotic category must therefore contain a linear combination of crossing-partition vectors. The categories generated by 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 , there is no exotic category containing a linear combination of 31 crossing-partition vectors that is distinguished from or 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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