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Asymptotics of commuting probabilities in reductive algebraic groups

Group Theory 2021-05-28 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Let GG be an algebraic group. For d1d\geq 1, we define the commuting probabilities cpd(G)=dim(Cd(G))dim(Gd)cp_d(G) = \frac{dim(\mathfrak C_d(G))}{dim(G^d)}, where Cd(G)\mathfrak C_d(G) is the variety of commuting dd-tuples in GG. We prove that for a reductive group GG when dd is large, cpd(G)αncp_d(G)\sim \frac{\alpha}{n} where n=dim(G)n=\dim(G), and α\alpha is the maximal dimension of an Abelian subgroup of GG. For a finite reductive group GG defined over the field Fq\mathbb F_q, we show that cpd+1(G(Fq))q(αn)dcp_{d+1}(G(\mathbb F_q))\sim q^{(\alpha-n)d}, and give several examples.

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@article{arxiv.2105.12930,
  title  = {Asymptotics of commuting probabilities in reductive algebraic groups},
  author = {Shripad M. Garge and Uday Bhaskar Sharma and Anupam Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12930},
  year   = {2021}
}
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