Asymptotics of commuting probabilities in reductive algebraic groups

Abstract: Let

G

be an algebraic group. For

d g e q 1

, we define the commuting probabilities

c p_{d} (G) = f r a c d i m (m a t h f r a k C_{d} (G)) d i m (G^{d})

, where

m a t h f r a k C_{d} (G)

is the variety of commuting

d

-tuples in

G

. We prove that for a reductive group

G

when

d

is large,

c p_{d} (G) s i m f r a c a l p h a n

where

n = d i m (G)

, and

a l p h a

is the maximal dimension of an Abelian subgroup of

G

. For a finite reductive group

G

defined over the field

m a t h b b F_{q}

, we show that

c p_{d + 1} (G (m a t h b b F_{q})) s i m q^{(a l p h a - n) d}

, and give several examples.

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