Counting conjugacy classes in the unipotent radical of parabolic subgroups of GL_n(q).

DOI10.2140/PJM.2010.245.47zbMATH Open1196.20055arXiv0901.0667OpenAlexW2015162565MaRDI QIDQ848762FDOQ848762

Authors: Simon M. Goodwin, Gerhard Röhrle 

Publication date: 23 February 2010

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $q$ be a power of a prime $p$. Let $P$ be a parabolic subgroup of the general linear group $G{L}_n(q)$ that is the stabilizer of a flag in $F{F}_q^n$ of length at most 5, and let $U=O_p(P)$. In this note we prove that, as a function of $q$, the number $k(U)$ of conjugacy classes of $U$ is a polynomial in $q$ with integer coefficients.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0667

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zbMATH Keywords

parabolic subgroupsgeneral linear groupsnumbers of conjugacy classesunipotent radicalsHigman conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

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