ON INVOLUTIONS AND INDICATORS OF FINITE ORTHOGONAL GROUPS

DOI10.1017/S144678871800006XzbMATH Open1444.20032arXiv1708.05246OpenAlexW2963550074WikidataQ129758296 ScholiaQ129758296MaRDI QIDQ4554597FDOQ4554597

Authors: Gregory K. Taylor, C. Ryan Vinroot 

Publication date: 9 November 2018

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

Abstract: We study the numbers of involutions and their relation to Frobenius-Schur indicators in the groups $mathrm{SO}^{pm}(n,q)$ and $Omeg{a}^{pm}(n,q)$. Our point of view for this study comes from two motivations. The first is the conjecture that a finite simple group $G$ is strongly real (all elements are conjugate to their inverses by an involution) if and only if it is totally orthogonal (all Frobenius-Schur indicators are 1), and we are able to show this holds for all finite simple groups $G$ other than the groups $mathrmSp(2n,q)$ with $q$ even or $Omeg{a}^{pm}(4m,q)$ with $q$ even. We prove computationally that for small $n$ and $m$ this statement indeed holds for these groups by equating their character degree sums to the number of involutions. We also prove a result on a certain twisted indicator for the groups $mathrm{SO}^{pm}(4m+2,q)$ with $q$ odd. Our second motivation is to continue the work of Fulman, Guralnick, and Stanton on generating function and asymptotics for involutions in classical groups. We extend their work by finding generating functions for the numbers of involutions in $mathrm{SO}^{pm}(n,q)$ and $Omeg{a}^{pm}(n,q)$ for all $q$, and we use these to compute the asymptotic behavior for the number of involutions in these groups when $q$ is fixed and $n$ grows.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05246

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zbMATH Keywords

generating functionsinvolutionsasymptotic enumerationFrobenius-Schur indicatorsorthogonal groups over finite fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

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