Timeline for A generalized Burnside's lemma
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| Jun 9, 2014 at 21:54 | answer | added | Marty Isaacs | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 5, 2014 at 14:41 | comment | added | Mark Wildon | One special case: Take the conjugacy action of $G$ on itself. Then the right-hand side is the number of classes making up $S$, say $s$. Dividing by $|S|$ shows that the probability that elements $g \in G$ and $h \in S$ (chosen uniformly at random) commute is $s/|S|$. | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 14:50 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Reading your second sentence, I am reminded of this reminiscence (ams.org/journals/bull/1988-19-02/S0273-0979-1988-15735-7/…) of Hugo Rossi on Errett Bishop: "In this time I also learned that when Errett said that he thought he could prove something, he meant that he could prove it, but that he was not yet happy with the exposition." | |
| Jun 4, 2014 at 14:03 | history | asked | Mike Shulman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |