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/7377zbMATH Open1494.20076arXiv1508.00039OpenAlexW2427028772WikidataQ123166808 ScholiaQ123166808MaRDI QIDQ4635472FDOQ4635472

Robert Guralnick, Jason Fulman

Publication date: 23 April 2018

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

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.

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)

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