Characters and random walks on finite classical groups

DOI10.1006/aima.1996.1635zbMath0881.60007OpenAlexW2038359525MaRDI QIDQ1362167

David Gluck

Publication date: 3 February 1998

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/aima.1996.1635

zbMATH Keywords

upper boundsrandom walksgroup charactersclassical groups of Lie typeconvergence to uniformity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

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