Primitive normalisers in quasipolynomial time
Group Theory
2021-12-02 v1
Abstract
The normaliser problem has as input two subgroups and of the symmetric group , and asks for a generating set for : it is not known to have a subexponential time solution. It is proved in [Roney-Dougal & Siccha, 2020] that if is primitive then the normaliser problem can be solved in quasipolynomial time. We show that for all subgroups and of , in quasipolynomial time we can decide whether is primitive, and if so compute . Hence we reduce the question of whether one can solve the normaliser problem in quasipolynomial time to the case where the normaliser is known not to be primitive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.01886,
title = {Primitive normalisers in quasipolynomial time},
author = {Mun See Chang and Colva M. Roney-Dougal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.01886},
year = {2021}
}