Flatness of the commutator map on special linear groups
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2018-07
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[Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University
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This thesis contributes to the study of the fibers of the commutator map on special linear groups in characteristic zero. Specifically, we show that the fibers over non-central elements all have the same dimension. Also we explain that the fibers over central elements can be of larger dimension and compute how large. We use the character tables of finite general linear groups constructed by J.A. Green to count solutions to the commutator equation [$x,y$] = $g$ over finite fields and use algebraic geometry to go from characteristic $p$ to characteristic 0. To deal with fibers over central elements, we compute the orbits of the conjugation action of $GL_n$ on these fibers.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Department of Mathematics, 2018
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algebraic geometry, character estimates, commutator
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Doctoral Dissertation