Totally orthogonal finite simple groups

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Abstract: We prove that if G is a finite simple group, then all irreducible complex representations of G by be realized over the real numbers if and only if every element of G may be written as a product of two involutions in G. This follows from our result that if q is a power of 2, then all irreducible complex representations of the orthogonal groups mathrmOpm(2n,mathbbFq) may be realized over the real numbers. We also obtain generating functions for the sums of degrees of several sets of unipotent characters of finite orthogonal groups, and we obtain a twisted version of our main result for a broad family of finite classical groups.




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