How random are word maps?

zbMATH Open1341.20030MaRDI QIDQ2809745FDOQ2809745

Authors: Michael Larsen 

Publication date: 30 May 2016

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zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupsrandom sequencesword maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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