Word maps and Waring type problems

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-08-00615-2zbMath1206.20014arXivmath/0701334OpenAlexW2028404591MaRDI QIDQ3079203

Aner Shalev, Michael J. Larsen

Publication date: 2 March 2011

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701334

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesfinite simple groupsWaring problemword maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Commutator calculus (20F12) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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