A class transposition is a permutation involution of the integers that exchanges two disjoint residue
classes term by term and fixes all other integers
(Kohl 2010). For ,
,
and
,
write
and
.
Their disjointness is equivalent to
, where
is the greatest common
divisor. The class transposition
interchanges
and
for every integer
. For example,
swaps every even
number with the following odd number.
Iskra (2026) proved that if a product of two class transpositions has finite order, then its order divides 840. The bound is sharp. The product of and
has order 840, which Kohl independently verified
using GAP's RCWA package (Iskra 2026).
Iskra (2026) reports using ChatGPT to check arguments, search computationally for the order-840 example, and assist with language. The author states that all mathematical arguments and examples were independently verified.