Many Zeros of Many Characters of GL(n,q)

@article{Gallagher2019ManyZO,
  title={Many Zeros of Many Characters of GL(n,q)},
  author={Patrick X. Gallagher and Michael Larsen and Alexander R. Miller},
  journal={International Mathematics Research Notices},
  year={2019}
}
For $G=\textrm{GL}(n,q)$, the proportion $P_{n,q}$ of pairs $(\chi ,g)$ in $\textrm{Irr}(G)\times G$ with $\chi (g)\neq 0$ satisfies $P_{n,q}\to 0$ as $n\to \infty $. 
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