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Motivated in part by representation theoretic questions, we prove that if G is a finite quasi-simple group, then there exists an elementary abelian subgroup of G that contains a member of each conjugacy class of involutions of G.

Let $G$ be a finite group of order divisible by a prime $p$. The number of $p$-regular and $p'$-regular conjugacy classes of $G$ is at least $2\sqrt{p-1}$. Also, the number of $p$-rational and $p'$-rational irreducible characters of $G$ is at least $2\sqrt{p-1}$. Along the way we prove a uniform lower bound for the number of $p$-regular classes in a finite simple group of Lie type in terms of its rank and size of the underlying field., 46 pages

Let G be a simple algebraic group of adjoint type over an algebraically closed field k of bad characteristic. We show that its sheets of conjugacy classes are parametrized by G-conjugacy classes of pairs $(M,{\mathcal O})$ where M is the identity component of the centralizer of a semisimple element in G and ${\mathcal O}$ is a rigid unipotent conjugacy class in M, in analogy with the good characteristic case.

Let $G$ be a subgroup of ${\rm PGL}_2({\mathbb F}_q)$, where $q$ is any prime power, and let $Q \in {\mathbb F}_q[x]$ such that ${\mathbb F}_q(x)/{\mathbb F}_q(Q(x))$ is a Galois extension with group $G$. By explicitly computing the Artin map on unramified degree-1 primes in ${\mathbb F}_q(Q)$ for various groups $G$, interesting new results emerge about finite fields, additive polynomials, and conjugacy classes of ${\rm PGL}_2({\mathbb F}_q)$. For example, by taking $G$ to be a unipotent group, one obtains a new characterization for when an additive polynomial splits completely over ${\mathbb F}_q$. When $G = {\rm PGL}_2({\mathbb F}_q)$, one obtains information about conjugacy classes of ${\rm PGL}_2({\mathbb F}_q)$. When $G$ is the group of order 3 generated by $x \mapsto 1 - 1/x$, one obtains a natural tripartite symbol on ${\mathbb F}_q$ with values in ${\mathbb Z}/3{\mathbb Z}$. Some of these results generalize to ${\rm PGL}_2(K)$ for arbitrary fields $K$. Apart from the introduction, this article is written from first principles, with the aim to be accessible to graduate students or advanced undergraduates. An earlier draft of this article was published on the Math arXiv in June 2019 under the title {\it More structure theorems for finite fields}., Comment: Version 4 contains minor corrections and updates to the bibliograpy. Version 3 is a major revision, including a change in the title from "More structure theorems for finite fields" to "Explicit Artin maps into PGL2". The author thanks Xander Faber for insightful comments that led to the change in the title

We introduce the notion of minimal reduction type of an affine Springer fiber, and use it to define a map from the set of conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to the set of nilpotent orbits. We show that this map is the same as the one defined by Lusztig in Lfromto, (2011) and that the Kazhdan–Lusztig map in Kazhdan and Lusztig, (1998) is a section of our map. This settles several conjectures in the literature. For classical groups, we prove more refined results by introducing and studying the “skeleta” of affine Springer fibers.

In this paper, a new family of Dai-Liao–type conjugate gradient methods are proposed for unconstrained optimization problem. In the new methods, the modified secant equation used in [H. Yabe and M. Takano, Comput. Optim. Appl. 28 (2004) 203–225] is considered in Dai and Liao’s conjugacy condition. Under some certain assumptions, we show that our methods are globally convergent for general functions with strong Wolfe line search. Numerical results illustrate that our proposed methods can outperform some existing ones.

Given a dynamical simplex $K$ on a Cantor space $X$, we consider the set $G_K^*$ of all homeomorphisms of $X$ which preserve all elements of $K$ and have no nontrivial clopen invariant subset. Generalising a theorem of Yingst, we prove that for a generic element $g$ of $G_K^*$ the set of invariant measures of $g$ is equal to $K$. We also investigate when there exists a generic conjugacy class in $G_K^*$ and prove that this happens exactly when $K$ has only one element, which is the unique invariant measure associated to some odometer; and that in that case the conjugacy class of this odometer is generic in $G_K^*$., Updated (and final) version

The primary purpose of this paper is to report on the successful enumeration in Magma of representatives of the 195 826 352 conjugacy classes of transitive subgroups of the symmetric group S 48 of degree 48. In addition, we have determined that 25707 of these groups are minimal transitive and that 713 of them are elusive. The minimal transitive examples have been used to enumerate the vertex-transitive groups of degree 48, of which there are 1 538 868 366 , all but 0.1625% of which arise as Cayley graphs. We have also found that the largest number of elements required to generate any of these groups is 10, and we have used this fact to improve previous general bounds of the third author on the number of elements required to generate an arbitrary transitive permutation group of a given degree. The details of the proof of this improved bound will be published as a separate paper.

We describe a procedure to introduce general dependence structures on a set of Dirichlet processes. Dependence can be in one direction to define a time series or in two directions to define spatial dependencies. More directions can also be considered. Dependence is induced via a set of latent processes and exploit the conjugacy property between the Dirichlet and the multinomial processes to ensure that the marginal law for each element of the set is a Dirichlet process. Dependence is characterised through the correlation between any two elements. Posterior distributions are obtained when we use the set of Dirichlet processes as prior distributions in a bayesian nonparametric context. Posterior predictive distributions induce partially exchangeable sequences defined by generalised P\'olya urs. A numerical example to illustrate is also included.

Let $G$ be a finite group, and let $\Delta(G)$ be the prime graph built on the set of conjugacy class sizes of $G$: this is the simple undirected graph whose vertices are the prime numbers dividing some conjugacy class size of $G$, two vertices $p$ and $q$ being adjacent if and only if $pq$ divides some conjugacy class size of $G$. In the present paper, we classify the finite groups $G$ for which $\Delta(G)$ has a cut vertex.

Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional vector space over the finite field ${\mathbb F}_q$ and suppose $W$ and $\widetilde{W}$ are subspaces of $V$. Two linear transformations $T:W\to V$ and $\widetilde{T}:\widetilde{W}\to V$ are said to be similar if there exists a linear isomorphism $S:V\to V$ with $SW=\widetilde{W}$ such that $S\circ T=\widetilde{T}\circ S $. Given a linear map $T$ defined on a subspace $W$ of $V$, we give an explicit formula for the number of linear maps that are similar to $T$. Our results extend a theorem of Philip Hall that settles the case $W=V$ where the above problem is equivalent to counting the number of square matrices over ${\mathbb F}_q$ in a conjugacy class., 15 pages, 3 figures

The article presents an analysis of genotypic correlations between the yield of 33 variety samples of spring soft wheat and elements of its structure in the conditions of Penza region, the degree of variability of agronomic valuable traits during the years of research (2018-2020) has been determined. It has been established, that the low-varying agronomic valuable traits (CV = 7.8-9.9 %) include the wheat ear length, number of spikelets in the ear, weight of 1000 grains; moderately varying traits (СV = 13.8-15.6 %) include productive bushiness capacity, the number of grains in the ear and weight of grains in one ear; highly-varying traits (СV = 21.7-22.7 %) include the number of grains per ear and weight of the grain per ear. A strong positive interrelation has been established between the yield of spring soft wheat and the number of grains per ear (r = 0.706...0.816) and weight of grain per ear (r = 0.754...0.875). There has been revealed an average positive interrelation between the yield and the weight of ears (r = 0.467...0.621), the number of spikelets per ear (r = 0.358...0.582), the number of grains per plant (r = 0.446...0.541) and the weight of grain per plant (r = 0.309...0.608). The correlation dependence of yield on productive bushiness (r = 0.091…0.415), ear length (r = 0.074…0.503) and weight of 1000 grains (r = 0.193…0.583) turned out to be unstable. Thus, the formation of grain yield was influenced by the number of grains per ear and the weight of grain per ear. The analysis showed the degree of influence of various elements of productivity on the formation of yield of spring soft wheat variety samples that provides a more targeted selection in the breeding process.

Let $A,B\subset M$ be inclusions of $\sigma$-finite von Neumann algebras such that $A$ and $B$ are images of faithful normal conditional expectations. In this article, we investigate Popa's intertwining condition $A\preceq_MB$ using their modular actions. In the main theorem, we prove that if $A\preceq_MB$ holds, then an intertwining element for $A\preceq_MB$ also intertwines some modular flows of $A$ and $B$. As a result, we deduce a new characterization of $A\preceq_MB$ in terms of their continuous cores. Using this new characterization, we prove the first W$^*$-superrigidity type result for group actions on amenable factors. As another application, we characterize stable strong solidity for free product factors in terms of their free product components., Comment: 35 pages

We show the mapping class group, CAT(0) groups, the fundamental groups of closed 3-manifolds, and certain relatively hyperbolic groups have a local-to-global property for Morse quasi-geodesics. This allows us to generalize combination theorems of Gitik for quasiconvex subgroups of hyperbolic groups to the stable subgroups of these groups. In the case of the mapping class group, this gives combination theorems for convex cocompact subgroups. We show a number of additional consequences of this local-to-global property, including a Cartan-Hadamard type theorem for detecting hyperbolicity locally and discreteness of translation length of conjugacy classes of Morse elements with a fixed gauge. To prove the relatively hyperbolic case, we develop a theory of deep points for local quasi-geodesics in relatively hyperbolic spaces, extending work of Hruska., Mathematische Zeitschrift, 300 (2)

In this paper, we present some important dynamical concepts on uniform space such as the uniform minimal systems, uniform shadowing, and strong uniform shadowing. We explain some definitions and theorems such as definition uniform expansive, weak uniform expansive, uniform generator, and the proof of the theorems for them. We prove that if be a homeomorphism on a compact uniform space then has uniform shadowing if and only if has uniform shadowing, so if has strong uniform shadowing if and only if has strong uniform shadowing. We also show that and be two uniform homeomorphisms on compact uniform spaces and , if is a uniform conjugacy from to , then . Besides some other results.

Let G be a finite group. For an element x of G, xG denotes the conjugacy class of x in G. |xG| is called the size of the conjugacy class xG. In this paper, we establish several results on conjugacy class sizes of some elements of finite groups. In addition, we give a simple and clearer proof of a known result.

For finitely generated subgroups $W_1, \ldots , W_t$ of $\mathbb{Q}^{\times}$, integers $k_1, \ldots , k_t$, a Galois extension $F$ of $\mathbb{Q}$ and a union of conjugacy classes $C \subset \text{Gal}(F/\mathbb{Q})$, we develop methods for determining if there exists infinitely many primes $p$ such that the index of the reduction of $W_i$ modulo $p$ divides $k_i$ and such that the Artin symbol of $p$ on $F$ is contained in $C$. The results are a multivariable generalization of H.W. Lenstra's work. As an application, we determine all integers $a_1, \ldots , a_n$ such that $\text{ord}_p(a_1) = \ldots = \text{ord}_p(a_n)$ for infinitely many primes $p$. We also discuss the set of those $p$ for which $\text{ord}_p(a_1) > \ldots > \text{ord}_p(a_n)$. The obtained results are conditional to a generalization of the Riemann hypothesis., 20 pages. Add section on Kummer-type extensions and improve exposition

In this paper we characterize, in terms of their conjugacy classes, linear groups G such that $$G/\zeta _k(G)$$ G / ζ k ( G ) belongs to a certain group class $$\mathfrak {X}$$ X for several natural choices of $$\mathfrak {X}$$ X . Moreover, a description is given of linear groups with restrictions on layers.

We show that, up to strong cocycle conjugacy, every countable exact group admits a unique equivariantly $\mathcal {O}_{2}$-absorbing, pointwise outer action on the Cuntz algebra $\mathcal {O}_{2}$ with the quasi-central approximation property (QAP). In particular, we establish the equivariant analogue of the Kirchberg $\mathcal {O}_{2}$-absorption theorem for these groups.

We study a conjugacy between two critical circle homeomorphisms with irrational rotation number. Let fi, i = 1, 2 be a C3 circle homeomorphisms with critical point x(i) cr of the order 2mi + 1. We prove that if 2m1 + 1 ̸= 2m2 + 1, then conjugating between f1 and f2 is a singular function. Keywords: circle homeomorphism, critical point, conjugating map, rotation number, singular function

We prove that all classical affine W-algebras W(g,f), where g is a simple Lie algebra and f is its non-zero nilpotent element, admit an integrable hierarchy of bi-Hamiltonian PDEs, except possibly for one nilpotent conjugacy class in G_2, one in F_4, and five in E_8., Comment: 18 pages

This article illustrates the dynamical concept of $homomesy$ in three kinds of dynamical systems -- combinatorial, piecewise-linear, and birational -- and shows the relationship between these three settings. In particular, we show how the rowmotion and promotion operations of Striker and Williams can be lifted to (continuous) piecewise-linear operations on the order polytope of Stanley, and then lifted to birational operations on the positive orthant in $\mathbb{R}^{|P|}$ and indeed to a dense subset of $\mathbb{C}^{|P|}$. When the poset $P$ is a product of a chain of length $a$ and a chain of length $b$, these lifted operations have order $a+b$, and exhibit the homomesy phenomenon: the time-averages of various quantities are the same in all orbits. One important tool is a concrete realization of the conjugacy between rowmotion and promotion found by Striker and Williams; this $recombination$ $map$ allows us to use homomesy for promotion to deduce homomesy for rowmotion. NOTE: An earlier draft showed that Stanley's transfer map between the order polytope and the chain polytope arises as the tropicalization of an analogous map in the bilinear realm; in 2020 we removed this material for the sake of brevity, especially after Joseph and Roby generalized our proof to the noncommutative realm (see arXiv:1909.09658v3). Readers who nonetheless wish to see our proof can find the September 2018 draft of this preprint through the arXiv.

The affine general linear group acting on a vector space over a prime field is a well-understood mathematical object. Its elementary abelian regular subgroups have recently drawn attention in applied mathematics thanks to their use in cryptography as a way to hide or detect weaknesses inside block ciphers. This paper is focused on building a convenient representation of their elements which suits better the purposes of the cryptanalyst. Several combinatorial counting formulas and a classification of their conjugacy classes are given as well., Comment: to appear in Journal of Algebra

Suppose G be a finite group and X be a subset of G. The commuting graph, denoted by C(G,X), is a simple undirected graph, where X ⊂G being the set of vertex and two distinct vertices x,y∈X are joined by an edge if and only if xy = yx. The aim of this paper was to describe the structure of disconnected commuting graph by considering a symplectic group and a conjugacy class of elements of order three. The main work was to discover the disc structure and the diameter of the subgraph as well as the suborbits of symplectic groups S4(2)', S4(3) and S6(2). Additionally, two mathematical formulas are derived and proved, one gives the number of subgraphs based on the size of each subgraph and the size of the conjugacy class, whilst the other one gives the size of disc relying on the number and size of suborbits in each disc.

Assume that is a meromorphic fuction of degree n where X is compact Riemann surface of genus g. The meromorphic function gives a branched cover of the compact Riemann surface X. Classes of such covers are in one to one correspondence with conjugacy classes of r-tuples ( of permutations in the symmetric group , in which and s generate a transitive subgroup G of This work is a contribution to the classification of all primitive groups of degree 7, where X is of genus one.

Motion groups of links in the three sphere $\mathbb{S}^3$ are generalizations of the braid groups, which are motion groups of points in the disk $\mathbb{D}^2$. Representations of motion groups can be used to model statistics of extended objects such as closed strings in physics. Each $1$-extended $(3+1)$-topological quantum field theory (TQFT) will provide representations of motion groups, but it is difficult to compute such representations explicitly in general. In this paper, we compute representations of the motion groups of links in $\mathbb{S}^3$ with generalized axes from Dijkgraaf-Witten (DW) TQFTs inspired by dimension reduction. A succinct way to state our result is as a step toward a twisted generalization (Conjecture \ref{mainconjecture}) of a conjecture for DW theories of dimension reduction from $(3+1)$ to $(2+1)$: $\textrm{DW}^{3+1}_G \cong \oplus_{[g]\in [G]} \textrm{DW}^{2+1}_{C(g)}$, where the sum runs over all conjugacy classes $[g]\in [G]$ of $G$ and $C(g)$ the centralizer of any element $g\in [g]$. We prove a version of Conjecture \ref{mainconjecture} for the mapping class groups of closed manifolds and the case of torus links labeled by pure fluxes., Clarify the main conjecture as a twisted version of dimension reduction. To appear in Comm. Math Phys

We consider several computational problems related to conjugacy between subshifts of finite type, restricted to k-block codes: verifying a proposed k-block conjugacy, deciding if two shifts admit a k-block conjugacy, and reducing the representation size of a shift via a k-block conjugacy. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for verification, and show GI - and NP -hardness for deciding conjugacy and reducing representation size, respectively. Our approach focuses on 1-block conjugacies between vertex shifts, from which we generalize to k-block conjugacies and to edge shifts. We conclude with several open problems.

Following Losik's approach to Gelfand's formal geometry, certain characteristic classes for codimension-one foliations coming from the Gelfand-Fuchs cohomology are considered. Sufficient conditions for non-triviality in terms of dynamical properties of generators of the holonomy groups are found. The non-triviality for the Reeb foliations is shown; this is in contrast with some classical theorems on the Godbillon-Vey class, e.g, the Mizutani-Morita-Tsuboi Theorem about triviality of the Godbillon-Vey class of foliations almost without holonomy is not true for the classes under consideration. It is shown that the considered classes are trivial for a large class of foliations without holonomy. The question of triviality is related to ergodic theory of dynamical systems on the circle and to the problem of smooth conjugacy of local diffeomorphisms. Certain classes are obstructions for the existence of transverse affine and projective connections., The final version accepted to Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu

We study the regularity of a conjugacy between an Anosov automorphism $L$ of a nilmanifold $N/\Gamma$ and a volume-preserving, $C^1$-small perturbation $f$. We say that $L$ is locally Lyapunov spectrum rigid if this conjugacy is $C^{1+}$ whenever $f$ is $C^{1+}$ and has the same volume Lyapunov spectrum as $L$. For $L$ with simple spectrum, we show that local Lyapunov spectrum rigidity is equivalent to $L$ satisfying both an irreducibility condition and an ordering condition on its Lyapunov exponents., Comment: 40 pages; comments are welcome