Beauville surfaces and finite simple groups.

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2011.117MaRDI QIDQ2890366zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shelly Garion, Alexander Lubotzky, Michael Larsen

Publication date 8 June 2012

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2316

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesfinite simple groupssimple algebraic groupsBeauville surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Surfaces of general type (14J29) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Simple groups (20E32)

Abstract: A Beauville surface is a rigid complex surface of the form (C1 x C2)/G, where C1 and C2 are non-singular, projective, higher genus curves, and G is a finite group acting freely on the product. Bauer, Catanese, and Grunewald conjectured that every finite simple group G, with the exception of A5, gives rise to such a surface. We prove that this is so for almost all finite simple groups (i.e., with at most finitely many exceptions). The proof makes use of the structure theory of finite simple groups, probability theory, and character estimates.

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• Character estimates for finite simple groups and applications
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