Seminar
Modular zeros in the character table of the symmetric group
Number Theory
10 March 18:15 - 19:15
Sarah Peluse - Princeton University
In 2017, Miller conjectured, based on computational evidence, that for any fixed prime $p$ the density of entries in the character table of $S_n$ that are divisible by $p$ goes to $1$ as $n$ goes to infinity. I’ll describe a proof of this conjecture, which is joint work with K. Soundararajan. I will also discuss the (still open) problem of determining the asymptotic density of zeros in the character table of $S_n$, where it is not even clear from computational data what one should expect.
Organizers
Pär Kurlberg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Lilian Matthiesen
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Damaris Schindler
Universität Göttingen