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Numbers of conjugacy classes in some finite classical groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

I.G. Macdonald
I.G. Macdonald
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, London EI4NS, England.
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Abstract

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In this paper we calculate the number of congugacy classes in the following finite classical groups: GLn(Fq); PGLn(Fq), SLn(Fq), and more generally G(Fq), where G is any algebraic group isogenous to SLn; PSLn(Fq); ; , , and more generally where G is any group isogenous to SUn over Fq; and .

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 23 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1981

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