Derangements in finite classical groups for actions related to extension field and imprimitive subgroups and the solution of the Boston–Shalev conjecture

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7377MaRDI QIDQ4635472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jason Fulman, Robert Guralnick

Publication date 23 April 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00039

zbMATH Keywords

random matrixpermutation groupderangementfinite classical group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primitive groups (20B15) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: This is the fourth paper in a series. We prove a conjecture made independently by Boston et al and Shalev. The conjecture asserts that there is an absolute positive constant delta such that if G is a finite simple group acting transitively on a set of size n > 1, then the proportion of derangements in G is greater than delta. We show that with possibly finitely many exceptions, one can take delta = .016. Indeed, we prove much stronger results showing that for many actions, the proportion of derangements goes to 1 as n increases and prove similar results for families of permutation representations.

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