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Counting conjugacy classes of elements of finite order in exceptional Lie groups

Combinatorics 2024-07-09 v2

Abstract

This paper continues the study of two numbers that are associated with Lie groups. The first number is N(G,m)N(G,m), the number of conjugacy classes of elements in GG whose order divides mm. The second number is N(G,m,s)N(G,m,s), the number of conjugacy classes of elements in GG whose order divides mm and which have ss distinct eigenvalues, where we view GG as a matrix group in its smallest-degree faithful representation. We describe systematic algorithms for computing both numbers for GG a connected and simply-connected exceptional Lie group. We also provide explicit results for all of N(G,m)N(G,m), N(G2,m,s)N(G_2,m,s), and N(F4,m,s)N(F_4,m,s). The numbers N(G,m,s)N(G,m,s) were previously known only for the classical Lie groups; our results for N(G,m)N(G,m) agree with those already in the literature but are obtained differently.

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@article{arxiv.2210.15737,
  title  = {Counting conjugacy classes of elements of finite order in exceptional Lie groups},
  author = {Tamar Friedmann and Qidong He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.15737},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Published in Combinatorial Theory