Bounds on the number and sizes of conjugacy classes in finite Chevalley groups with applications to derangements.

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2012-05427-4MaRDI QIDQ2884396zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jason Fulman, Robert Guralnick

Publication date 29 May 2012

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2238

zbMATH Keywords

partitionsgenerating functionsfinite simple groupsderangementsnumbers of conjugacy classesfinite Chevalley groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primitive groups (20B15) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: We present explicit upper bounds for the number and size of conjugacy classes in finite Chevalley groups and their variations. These results have been used by many authors to study zeta functions associated to representations of finite simple groups, random walks on Chevalley groups, the final solution to the Ore conjecture about commutators in finite simple groups and other similar problems. In this paper, we solve a strong version of the Boston-Shalev conjecture on derangements in simple groups for most of the families of primitive permutation group representations of finite simple groups (the remaining cases are settled in two other papers of the authors and applications are given in a third).

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