Real and strongly real classes in SL_n(q).

DOI10.1515/JGT.2010.054zbMATH Open1232.20018arXiv0809.4412OpenAlexW2088659546MaRDI QIDQ3174592FDOQ3174592

Anupam Singh, Nick Gill

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We classify the real and strongly real conjugacy classes in $G{L}_n(q)$, $S{L}_n(q)$, $PG{L}_n(q)$, $PS{L}_n(q)$, and all quasi-simple covers of $PS{L}_n(q)$. In each case we give a formula for the number of real, and the number of strongly real, conjugacy classes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4412

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zbMATH Keywords

strongly real conjugacy classesspecial linear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

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• Numbers of conjugacy classes in some finite classical groups
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