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Most Words are Geometrically Almost Uniform

Group Theory 2020-09-23 v1

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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@article{arxiv.1908.07287,
  title  = {Most Words are Geometrically Almost Uniform},
  author = {Michael Larsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07287},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages

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