Splitting fields of characteristic polynomials of random elements in arithmetic groups

DOI10.1007/S11856-012-0117-XzbMATH Open1332.11098arXiv1008.3662OpenAlexW2005715694MaRDI QIDQ1955869FDOQ1955869

Authors: Florent Jouve, David Zywina, E. Kowalski 

Publication date: 19 June 2013

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss rather systematically the principle, implicit in earlier works, that for a "random" element in an arithmetic subgroup of a (split, say) reductive algebraic group over a number field, the splitting field of the characteristic polynomial, computed using any faitfhful representation, has Galois group isomorphic to the Weyl group of the underlying algebraic group. Besides tools such as the large sieve, which we had already used, we introduce some probabilistic ideas (large deviation estimates for finite Markov chains) and the general case involves a more precise understanding of the way Frobenius conjugacy classes are computed for such splitting fields (which is related to a map between regular elements of a finite group of Lie type and conjugacy classes in the Weyl group which had been considered earlier by Carter and Fulman for other purposes; we show in particular that the values of this map are equidistributed).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3662

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zbMATH Keywords

Galois groupWeyl grouparithmetic groupssplitting fieldsFrobenius conjugacy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11R32) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

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