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Journal of Algebra

Volume 278, Issue 2, 15 August 2004, Pages 739-765
Journal of Algebra

A super-class walk on upper-triangular matrices

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Abstract

Let G be the group of n×n upper-triangular matrices with elements in a finite field and ones on the diagonal. This paper applies the character theory of Andre, Carter, and Yan to analyze a natural random walk based on adding or subtracting a random row from the row above.

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