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The maximum girth is currently certified between 17 and 24

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An explicit generating pair attains girth 17, while the degree-four Moore bound rules out girth 25 and above.

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Recorded scope: all ordered pairs (A,B) in SL_2(F_101)^2 that generate SL_2(F_101) and have four distinct elements A, A^{-1}, B, B^{-1}

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  "kind": "bounded",
  "statement": "all ordered pairs (A,B) in SL_2(F_101)^2 that generate SL_2(F_101) and have four distinct elements A, A^{-1}, B, B^{-1}",
  "bounds": {
    "group_order": {
      "min": 1030200,
      "max": 1030200
    },
    "cayley_degree": {
      "min": 4,
      "max": 4
    }
  },
  "exhaustive": false
}

Originating problem: Largest girth from two generators of SL(2,101)

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The maximum girth is currently certified between 17 and 24
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{ "kind": "bounded", "statement": "all ordered pairs (A,B) in SL_2(F_101)^2 that generate SL_2(F_101) and have four distinct elements A, A^{-1}, B, B^{-1}", "bounds": { "group_order": { "min": 1030200, "max": 1030200 }, "cayley_degree": { "min": 4, "max": 4 } }, "exhaustive": false }

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Write \(M\) for the maximum in the problem. The pair \[ A=\begin{pmatrix}69&82\\70&51\end{pmatrix},\qquad B=\begin{pmatrix}41&48\\47&92\end{pmatrix} \quad(\bmod 101) \] generates all 1,030,200 elements of \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbf F_{101})\), and its undirected Cayley graph has girth exactly 17. This proves \(M\geq17\).

Every graph under consideration is 4-regular on \[ 101(101^2-1)=1{,}030{,}200 \] vertices. A 4-regular graph of girth at least 25 would contain a tree ball with \[ 1+4\sum_{i=0}^{11}3^i=1{,}062{,}881 \] distinct vertices. This exceeds the group order, so \(M\leq24\). Together, \[ 17\leq M\leq24. \] The upper bound ranges over every eligible pair. The lower-bound computation certifies one pair and does not enumerate simultaneous-conjugacy classes of all pairs.

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Verification source: arxiv.org ↗, Exact lower-bound certificate in mgsl-artifact-word-and-group-verifier; Moore counting argument included here

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