Products of conjugacy classes and fixed point spaces

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-2011-00709-1zbMath1286.20007arXiv1005.3756OpenAlexW2963357159WikidataQ56005224 ScholiaQ56005224MaRDI QIDQ3115808

Gunter Malle, Robert M. Guralnick

Publication date: 11 February 2012

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3756

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsfinite simple groupsWaring problemThompson conjectureproducts of conjugacy classesfixed point spacesNeumann conjectureirreducible 2-dimensional representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Maximal subgroups (20E28) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05)

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Uses Software

• CHEVIE
• ATLAS Group Representations

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