The Cohen-Lenstra Heuristic: Methodology and Results

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2009-12-25

arxiv.org/abs/0912.4975v1

Mathematics

Number Theory

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In number theory, great efforts have been undertaken to study the Cohen-Lenstra probability measure on the set of all finite abelian $p$-groups. On the other hand, group theorists have studied a probability measure on the set of all partitions induced by the probability that a randomly chosen $n\times n$-matrix over $\FF_p$ is contained in a conjucagy class associated with this partitions, for $n \to \infty$. This paper shows that both probability measures are identical. As a consequence, a multitide of results can be transferred from each theory to the other one. The paper contains a survey about the known methods to study the probability measure and about the results that have been obtained so far, from both communities.

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