Most Words are Geometrically Almost Uniform

DOI10.2140/ANT.2020.14.2185MaRDI QIDQ6323926arXivFDO

Authors Michael Larsen

Publication date 20 August 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over finite and local fields (11G25) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

Abstract: If w is a word in d>1 letters and G is a finite group, evaluation of w on a uniformly randomly chosen d-tuple in G gives a random variable with values in G, which may or may not be uniform. It is known that if G ranges over finite simple groups of given root system and characteristic, a positive proportion of words w give a distribution which approaches uniformity in the limit as |G| goes to infinity. In this paper, we show that the proportion is in fact 1.

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