Character bounds for finite groups of Lie type

DOI10.4310/ACTA.2018.V221.N1.A1MaRDI QIDQ1623211zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Roman Bezrukavnikov, Martin W. Liebeck, Aner Shalev, Pham Huu Tiep

Publication date 23 November 2018

Published in Acta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03896

zbMATH Keywords

bounds on character valuecharacter ratiosfinite groups of Lie type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

Abstract: We establish new bounds on character values and character ratios for finite groups $G$ of Lie type, which are considerably stronger than previously known bounds, and which are best possible in many cases. These bounds have the form $|chi(g)|lechi(1{)}^{alph{a}_g}$, and give rise to a variety of applications, for example to covering numbers and mixing times of random walks on such groups. In particular we deduce that, if $G$ is a classical group in dimension $n$, then, under some conditions on $G$ and $ginG$, the mixing time of the random walk on $G$ with the conjugacy class of $g$ as a generating set is (up to a small multiplicative constant) $n/s$, where $s$ is the support of $g$.

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