Character ratios, representation varieties and random generation of finite groups of Lie type

2018/07/23 by Liebeck, Martin W., Shalev, Aner, Tiep, Pham H.
#FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1807.08842

Abstract

We use character theory of finite groups of Lie type to establish new results on representation varieties of Fuchsian groups, and also on probabilistic generation of groups of Lie type.

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