Abundant p-singular elements in finite classical groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2013.09.021zbMATH1309.20042OpenAlexW2036784177WikidataQ56987460MaRDI QIDQ402707FDOQ402707

Authors Alice C. Niemeyer, Tomasz Popiel, Cheryl E. Praeger

Publication date 28 August 2014

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1454

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmsfinite linear groupsrandom elementsfinite groups of Lie type\(p\)-abundant elements\(p\)-singular elementsproportions of elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to group theory (20-04)

Abstract: In 1995, Isaacs, Kantor and Spaltenstein proved that for a finite simple classical group G defined over a field with q elements, and for a prime divisor p of |G| distinct from the characteristic, the proportion of p-singular elements in G (elements with order divisible by p) is at least a constant multiple of (1 - 1/p)/e, where e is the order of q modulo p. Motivated by algorithmic applications, we define a subfamily of p-singular elements, called p-abundant elements, which leave invariant certain "large" subspaces of the natural G-module. We find explicit upper and lower bounds for the proportion of p-abundant elements in G, and prove that it approaches a (positive) limiting value as the dimension of G tends to infinity. It turns out that the limiting proportion of p-abundant elements is at least a constant multiple of the Isaacs-Kantor-Spaltenstein lower bound for the proportion of all p-singular elements.

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