On the width of transitive sets: bounds on matrix coefficients of finite groups

DOI10.1215/00127094-2019-0074MaRDI QIDQ2178451zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 11 May 2020

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01904, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1578539084

primitive transitive unitary group width classification of finite simple groups symmetric probability measure

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25)

Abstract: We say that a finite subset of the unit sphere in

m a t h b f R^{d}

is transitive if there is a group of isometries which acts transitively on it. We show that the width of any transitive set is bounded above by a constant times

(l o g d)^{- 1 / 2}

. This is a consequence of the following result: If

G

is a finite group and

h o : G i g h t a r r o w m b o x U_{d} (m a t h b f C)

a unitary representation, and if

v i n m a t h b f C^{d}

is a unit vector, there is another unit vector

w i n m a t h b f C^{d}

such that [ sup_{g in G} |langle ho(g) v, w angle| leq (1 + c log d)^{-1/2}.] These results answer a question of Yufei Zhao. An immediate consequence of our result is that the diameter of any quotient

S (m a t h b f R^{d}) / G

of the unit sphere by a finite group

G

of isometries is at least

p i / 2 - o_{d i g h t a r r o w i n f t y} (1)

.

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