The Kourovka Notebook is a collection of open problems in Group
Theory.
My question is: could you point out some (a "big-list" of) problems [by referencing them] presented in this book that are, in principle, accessible to undegraduate students: i.e., problems that refer to (and possibly might be solved by applying) definitions, concepts, and theorems that are presented in a book like Herstein's Topics in Algebra (and then, by extension, in an abstract algebra course for undergraduates).
The aim of this question is to allow undergraduate students to have a better understanding of current research in algebra by letting them see concretely open problems that can be easily related to known concepts.
Best Answer
Problem 8.10(a) from the 8th edition (1982):
Remark:
for $n=3$ the group has the order 6 (should be an easy exercise for a student to check this by hand and show that it's cyclic)
for $n=6$ it has the order 9072 (perhaps not so easy to check this by hand, but can be done using computer).
for $n=7$, the computer calculation runs too long without an answer.
It is known that $G$ is infinite for:
An example in GAP illustrates the problem:
The message about the coset table calculation hitting the limit is often a slight hint towards the fact that it may be infinite, but that's far from being the evidence - it is still possible that the calculation will succeed after increasing the limit several times.
Thus, the problem for $n=7$ is still open...
Update: the answer to this question is given now in the 7th revision of the 18th edition of the Kourovka Notebook (http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0300):