Destine Lee, Iris Rosenblum-Sellers, Jakwanul Safin, Anda Tenie
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Abstract Given a finite covering of graphs , it is not always the case that is spanned by lifts of primitive elements of . In this article, we study graphs for which this is not the case, and we give here the simplest known nontrivial examples of covers with this property, with covering degree as small as 128. Our first step is focusing our attention on the special class of graph covers where the deck group is a finite p-group. For such covers, there is a representation-theoretic criterion for identifying deck groups for which there exist covers with the property. We present an algorithm for determining if a finite p-group satisfies this criterion that uses only the character table of the group. Finally, we provide a complete census of all finite p-groups of rank and order < 1000 satisfying this criterion, all of which are new examples.
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Experimental Mathematics publishes original papers featuring formal results inspired by experimentation, conjectures suggested by experiments, and data supporting significant hypotheses.
Experiment has always been, and increasingly is, an important method of mathematical discovery. (Gauss declared that his way of arriving at mathematical truths was "through systematic experimentation.") Yet this tends to be concealed by the tradition of presenting only elegant, fully developed, and rigorous results.
Experimental Mathematics was founded in the belief that theory and experiment feed on each other, and that the mathematical community stands to benefit from a more complete exposure to the experimental process. The early sharing of insights increases the possibility that they will lead to theorems: An interesting conjecture is often formulated by a researcher who lacks the techniques to formalize a proof, while those who have the techniques at their fingertips have been looking elsewhere. Even when the person who had the initial insight goes on to find a proof, a discussion of the heuristic process can be of help, or at least of interest, to other researchers. There is value not only in the discovery itself, but also in the road that leads to it.
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