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Analogies supporting heuristic: Weyl groups = algebraic groups over field with one element?

There is well-known heuristic that Weyl groups are reductive algebraic groups over "field with one element". Probably the best known analogy supporting that heuristic is the limit $q\to1$ ...
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What are the points of simple algebraic groups over extensions of $\mathbb{F}_1$?

The "field with one element" $\mathbb{F}_1$ is, of course, a very speculative object. Nevertheless, some things about it seem to be generally agreed, even if the theory underpinning them is not; in ...
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Motivation behind the construction of Deligne and Lusztig

If $G$ is a connected reductive group over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ and $T$ is a maximal torus in $G$, the famous construction of Deligne and Lusztig (Annals of Math, 1976) associates ...
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How generic are Cayley graphs of non-Abelian groups with logarithmic girth?

Given a non-Abelian group $G$ I want to choose a symmetric generating set $S \subset G$ such that $Cay(G,S)$ has girth logarithmic in the size of the set. I want to know, For which $G$ can the ...
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Determining the irreducible invariant subspaces of a permutation action by computing eigenspaces of a matrix

Let $\Sigma\subseteq\mathrm{Sym}(n)$ be a permutation group on $N:=\{1,...,n\}$. My goal is to determine the irreducible invariant subspaces of the permutation action of $\Sigma$ on $\Bbb R^n$, and I ...
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