The probability that XM and YN commute in a compact group

Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 503-513

  Hofmann, Karl H ^a   Russo, Francesco G ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

commutativity degree; compact groups; FC groups; Haar measure; probability of commuting pairs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878339581     PISSN: 00049727     EISSN: 17551633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0004972712000573     Document Type: Article

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