A Generating Function Approach to the Enumeration of Matrices in Classical Groups over Finite Fields

Download or read book A Generating Function Approach to the Enumeration of Matrices in Classical Groups over Finite Fields written by Jason Fulman and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generating function techniques are used to study the probability that an element of a classical group defined over a finite field is separable, cyclic, semisimple or regular. The limits of these probabilities as the dimension tends to infinity are calculated in all cases, and exponential convergence to the limit is proved. These results complement and extend earlier results of the authors, G. E. Wall, and Guralnick & Lubeck.