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问题在问什么

Emmanuel Breuillard , Ben Green , and I have just uploaded to the arXiv the paper “ Suzuki groups as expanders “, to be submitted. The purpose of this paper is to finish off the last case of the following theorem:

Theorem 1 (All finite simple groups have expanders) For every finite simple non-abelian group , there exists a set of generators of cardinality bounded uniformly in , such that the Cayley graph on generated by (i.e. the graph that connects with for all and ) has expansion constant bounded away from zero uniformly in , or equivalently that for all with and some independent of .

已知结果和反例

To put in an essentially equivalent way, one can quickly generate a random element of a finite simple group with a near-uniform distribution by multiplying together a few ( , to be more precise) randomly chosen elements of a fixed set . (The most well-known instance of this phenomenon is the famous result of Bayer and Diaconis that one can shuffle a 52-card deck reasonably well after seven riffle shuffles, and almost perfectly after ten.) Note that the abelian simple groups d

The first step in proving this theorem is, naturally enough, the classification of finite simple groups . The sporadic groups have bounded cardinality and are a trivial case of this theorem, so one only has to deal with the seventeen infinite families of finite non-abelian simple groups. With one exception, the groups in all of these families contain a copy of for some that goes to infinity as . Using this and several other non-trivial tools (such as Kazhdan’s property (T) an

证明或构造的主线

The exceptional family is the family of Suzuki groups , where is an odd power of . The Suzuki group can be viewed explicitly as a subgroup of the symplectic group and has cardinality . This cardinality is not divisible by , whereas all groups of the form have cardinality divisible by ; thus Suzuki groups do not contain copies of and the Kassabov-Lubotsky-Nikolov argument does not apply.

Our main result is that the Suzuki groups also support expanders, thus completing the last case of the above theorem. In fact we can pick just two random elements of the Suzuki group, and with probability , the Cayley graph generated by will be an expander uniformly in . (As stated in the paper of Kassabov-Lubotsky-Nikolov, the methods in that paper should give an upper bound on which they conservatively estimate to be .)

阅读时建议盯住的点

Our methods are different, instead following closely the arguments of Bourgain and Gamburd , which established the analogue of our result (i.e. that two random elements generate an expander graph) for the family of groups ( a large prime); the arguments there have since been generalised to several other major families of groups, and our result here can thus be viewed as one further such generalisation. Roughly speaking, the strategy is as follows. Let be the uniform probabili

The late period claim is easy to establish from Gowers’ theory of quasirandom groups , the key point being that (like all other finite simple nonabelian groups), the Suzuki groups do not admit any non-trivial low-dimensional irreducible representations (we can for instance use a precise lower bound of , due to Landazuri and Seitz ). (One can also proceed here using a trace formula argument of Sarnak and Xue ; the two approaches are basically equivalent.) The middle period red

值得单独记下的条目

• (Early period) When for some small , one wants to spread out a little bit in the sense that no individual element of is assigned a mass of any more than for some fixed . More generally, no proper subgroup of should be assigned a mass of mor
• (Late period) Once is reasonably spread out, a few more convolutions should make it extremely close to uniform (e.g. within in the norm).

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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