The Cohen-Lenstra heuristic: methodology and results

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2010.01.016zbMATH Open1213.11167arXiv0912.4975OpenAlexW2963715549MaRDI QIDQ975100FDOQ975100

Johannes Lengler

Publication date: 8 June 2010

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In number theory, great efforts have been undertaken to study the Cohen-Lenstra probability measure on the set of all finite abelian $p$-groups. On the other hand, group theorists have studied a probability measure on the set of all partitions induced by the probability that a randomly chosen $nimesn$-matrix over $F{F}_p$ is contained in a conjucagy class associated with this partitions, for $noinfty$. This paper shows that both probability measures are identical. As a consequence, a multitide of results can be transferred from each theory to the other one. The paper contains a survey about the known methods to study the probability measure and about the results that have been obtained so far, from both communities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4975

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zbMATH Keywords

random matricesCohen-Lenstra heuristicprobability distributionprobability measureclass groupsfinite Abelian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15) Relations with random matrices (11M50) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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