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Almost all permutations power to a cycle of prime length

Published 6 years agoVersion 2arXiv:1905.08936

Authors

William R. Unger

Categories

math.GR

Abstract

We show that almost all permutations have some power that is a cycle of prime length. The proof includes a theorem giving a strong upper bound on the proportion of elements of the symmetric group having no cycles with length in a given set.

Almost all permutations power to a cycle of prime length

6 years ago
v2
1 author

Categories

math.GR

Abstract

We show that almost all permutations have some power that is a cycle of prime length. The proof includes a theorem giving a strong upper bound on the proportion of elements of the symmetric group having no cycles with length in a given set.

Authors

William R. Unger

arXiv ID: 1905.08936
Published May 22, 2019

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