Fuchsian groups, finite simple groups and representation varieties.

DOI10.1007/S00222-004-0390-3MaRDI QIDQ1770266zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin W. Liebeck, Aner Shalev

Publication date 14 April 2005

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/88

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic estimatesfinite simple groupsirreducible complex characterszeta functionsFuchsian groupssimple algebraic groupsrandom generationLang-Weil estimatesdimensions of representation varietiesrandomly chosen homomorphismsspaces of homomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Simple groups (20E32)

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