Character estimates of adjoint simple Lie groups (Q741278)

A compact, connected, simple Lie group \(G\) is called adjoint simple if it has trivial center. The author proves that for such a group \(G\), there exists a constant \(c\) with \(-1<c<0\) depending only on \(G\) such that the image of any normalized character is contained in the disk tangent to the line \(\mathrm{Re}\, z=c\) and the unit circle. As a second result, it is proved that for \(n\) sufficiently large, any nontrivial conjugacy class \(C\subset G\) has the property that \(C^n\) contains the identity as an interior point.