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

DOI10.1215/00127094-2019-0074zbMATH Open1481.20047arXiv1802.01904OpenAlexW3098861731MaRDI QIDQ2178451FDOQ2178451

Ben Green

Publication date: 11 May 2020

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

Abstract: We say that a finite subset of the unit sphere in $mathbf{R}^d$ 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 $(logd{)}^{-1/2}$. This is a consequence of the following result: If $G$ is a finite group and $ho:Gightarrowmbox{U}_d(mathbfC)$ a unitary representation, and if $vinmathbf{C}^d$ is a unit vector, there is another unit vector $winmathbf{C}^d$ 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 $S(mathbf{R}^d)/G$ of the unit sphere by a finite group $G$ of isometries is at least $pi/2-o_{dightarrowinfty}(1)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01904

zbMATH Keywords

primitivetransitiveunitary groupwidthclassification of finite simple groupssymmetric probability measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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