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Sublattices and Subrings of Zn and Random Finite Abelian Groups

Mathematics Colloquium

Sublattices and Subrings of Zn and Random Finite Abelian Groups
Series: Mathematics Colloquium
Location: MATH 501
Presenter: Nathan Kaplan, UC Irvine

How many sublattices of Zn have index at most X?  If we choose such a lattice L at random, what is the probability that Zn/L is cyclic?  What is the probability that its order is odd?  Now let R be a random subring of Zn.  What is the probability that Zn/R is cyclic?  We will see how these questions fit into the study of random groups in number theory and combinatorics.  We will discuss connections to Cohen-Lenstra heuristics for class groups of number fields, sandpile groups of random graphs, and cokernels of random matrices over the integers.

(Refreshments will be served in the Math Commons Room at 3:30 PM)