{ "id": "1209.3345", "version": "v1", "published": "2012-09-15T00:34:12.000Z", "updated": "2012-09-15T00:34:12.000Z", "title": "The number of regular semisimple conjugacy classes in the finite classical groups", "authors": [ "Jason Fulman", "Robert Guralnick" ], "comment": "19 pages", "categories": [ "math.GR", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Using generating functions, we enumerate regular semisimple conjugacy classes in the finite classical groups. For the general linear, unitary, and symplectic groups this gives a different approach to known results; for the special orthogonal groups the results are new.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2012-09-15T00:34:12.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "finite classical groups", "enumerate regular semisimple conjugacy classes", "special orthogonal groups" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 19, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1209.3345F" } } }