Babai’s conjecture for high-rank classical groups with random generators
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- 17 August 2021
- journal article
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- Published by Springer Nature in Inventiones Mathematicae
- Vol. 227 (1) , 149-210
Abstract
Let $$G = {\text {SCl}}_n(q)$$ be a quasisimple classical group with n large, and let $$x_1, \ldots , x_k \in G$$ be random, where $$k \ge q^C$$ . We show that the diameter of the resulting Cayley graph is bounded by $$q^2 n^{O(1)}$$ with probability $$1 - o(1)$$ . In the particular case $$G = {\text {SL}}_n(p)$$ with p a prime of bounded size, we show that the same holds for $$k = 3$$ .
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- ELKH Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
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