What is the Probability that Two Group Elements Commute?

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DOI10.2307/2318778zbMath0276.60013MaRDI QIDQ4403059

William H. Gustafson

Publication date: 1973

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2318778


60C05: Combinatorial probability

20D99: Abstract finite groups

22C05: Compact groups

60B15: Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization

20P05: Probabilistic methods in group theory


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