Congruences between word length statistics for the finitary alternating and symmetric groups

DOI10.1007/S00013-017-1058-8MaRDI QIDQ2408901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tessa Cotron, Robert Dicks, Sarah M. Fleming

Publication date 10 October 2017

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03199

zbMATH Keywords

finitary permutation groupspartitionsRamanujan congruences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analytic theory of partitions (11P82) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83)

Abstract: In a recent paper, Bacher and de la Harpe study conjugacy growth series of infinite permutation groups and their relationships with $p(n)$, the partition function, and $p(n{)}_{extbfe}$, a generalized partition function. They prove identities for the conjugacy growth series of the finitary symmetric group and the finitary alternating group. The group theory also motivates an investigation into congruence relationships between the finitary symmetric group and the finitary alternating group. Using the Ramanujan congruences for the partition function $p(n)$ and Atkin's generalization to the $k$-colored partition function $p_k(n)$, we prove the existence of congruence relations between these two series modulo arbitrary powers of 5 and 7, which we systematically describe. Furthermore, we prove that such relationships exist modulo powers of all primes $ellgeq5$.

Review text

Recent investigations by \textit{R. Bacher} and \textit{P. de la Harpe} [``Conjugacy growth series of some infinitely generated groups, \url{arXiv:1603.07943}] indicate that the coefficients of a series related to the finitary alternating group seem to satisfy certain congruence relations reminiscent of Ramanujan's congruences for the partition function \(p(n)\). In this paper, the authors prove the existence of congruence relations modulo arbitrary powers of \(5\) and \(7\) between the finitary symmetric group and the finitary alternating group.

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