# Complexity and randomness in the Heisenberg groups (and beyond)

@article{Diaconis2021ComplexityAR,
title={Complexity and randomness in the Heisenberg groups (and beyond)},
author={Persi Diaconis and Maryanthe Malliaris},
journal={New Zealand Journal of Mathematics},
year={2021}
}
• Published 2021
• Mathematics
• New Zealand Journal of Mathematics
By studying the commuting graphs of conjugacy classes of the sequence of Heisenberg groups $H_{2n+1}(p)$ and their limit $H_\infty(p)$ we find pseudo-random behavior (and the random graph in the limiting case). This makes a nice case study for transfer of information between finite and infinite objects. Some of this behavior transfers to the problem of understanding what makes understanding the character theory of the uni-upper-triangular group (mod p) “wild.” Our investigations in this paper… Expand
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