Splitting fields of elements in arithmetic groups

DOI10.4310/MRL.2011.V18.N6.A16zbMATH Open1372.22011arXiv1105.0858OpenAlexW2034808327MaRDI QIDQ2391575FDOQ2391575

Authors: Alexander Gorodnik, Amos Nevo 

Publication date: 5 August 2013

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the number of unimodular integral matrices in a norm ball whose characteristic polynomial has Galois group different than the full symmetric group is of strictly lower order of magnitude than the number of all such matrices in the ball, as the radius increases. More generally, we prove a similar result for the Galois groups associated with elements in any connected semisimple linear algebraic group defined and simple over a number field $F$. Our method is based on the abstract large sieve method developed by Kowalski, and the study of Galois groups via reductions modulo primes developed by Jouve, Kowalski and Zywina. The two key ingredients are a uniform quantitative lattice point counting result, and a non-concentration phenomenon for lattice points in algebraic subvarieties of the group variety, both established previously by the authors. The results answer a question posed by Rivin and by Jouve, Kowalski and Zywina, who have considered Galois groups of random products of elements in algebraic groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0858

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois theory (11R32) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

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