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arxiv: 2503.12735 · v2 · pith:R37XHMNTnew · submitted 2025-03-17 · 🧮 math.RT · math.CO· math.GR· math.PR

Sharp character bounds and cutoff for symmetric groups

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We develop a flexible technique to bound the characters of symmetric groups, via the Naruse hook length formula, the Larsen--Shalev character bounds, and appropriate diagram slicings. It allows us to prove a uniform exponential character bound with optimal constant $1/2$. We furthermore prove sharp character bounds for conjugacy classes having a macroscopic number of fixed points, and deduce that the random walks on the associated Cayley graphs exhibit a total variation and $L^2$ cutoff.

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