Probabilistic Waring problems for finite simple groups

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2019.190.2.3MaRDI QIDQ2273999zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Larsen, Aner Shalev, Pham Huu Tiep

Publication date 19 September 2019

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05116

zbMATH Keywords

flat morphismsone-relator groupsrandom walkssimple groupsuniform distributionsWaring problemsword maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

Abstract: The probabilistic Waring problem for finite simple groups asks whether every word of the form $w_1{w}_2$, where $w_1$ and $w_2$ are non-trivial words in disjoint sets of variables, induces almost uniform distribution on finite simple groups with respect to the $L^1$ norm. Our first main result provides a positive solution to this problem. We also provide a geometric characterization of words inducing almost uniform distribution on finite simple groups of Lie type of bounded rank, and study related random walks. Our second main result concerns the probabilistic $L^{infty}$ Waring problem for finite simple groups. We show that for every $lge1$ there exists $N=N(l)$, such that if $w_1,ldots,w_N$ are non-trivial words of length at most $l$ in pairwise disjoint sets of variables, then their product $w_{1}cdots{w}_N$ is almost uniform on finite simple groups with respect to the $L^{infty}$ norm. The dependence of $N$ on $l$ is genuine. This result implies that, for every word $w=w_{1}cdots{w}_N$ as above, the word map induced by $w$ on a semisimple algebraic group over an arbitrary field is a flat morphism. Applications to representation varieties, subgroup growth, and random generation are also presented.

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