Characters and random walks on finite classical groups

DOI10.1006/aima.1996.1635zbMath0881.60007MaRDI QIDQ1362167

David Gluck

Publication date: 3 February 1998

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/aima.1996.1635

zbMATH Keywords

upper bounds; random walks; group characters; classical groups of Lie type; convergence to uniformity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20C15: Ordinary representations and characters

20C33: Representations of finite groups of Lie type

60B15: Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization

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