SURJECTIVITY AND EQUIDISTRIBUTION OF THE WORD xayb ON PSL(2, q) AND SL(2, q)

DOI10.1142/S0218196712500178zbMath1255.20010arXiv1106.1619MaRDI QIDQ5389116

Shelly Garion, Tatiana Bandman

Publication date: 24 April 2012

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1619

zbMATH Keywords

finite fields; finite simple groups; periodic points; arithmetic dynamics; special linear groups; trace maps; word maps; almost equidistributed maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20D60: Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups

14G05: Rational points

14G15: Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry

20D06: Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type

20P05: Probabilistic methods in group theory

37P35: Arithmetic properties of periodic points

37P55: Arithmetic dynamics on general algebraic varieties

37P25: Dynamical systems over finite ground fields

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