The sparsity of character tables of high rank groups of Lie type

@article{Larsen2020TheSO,
  title={The sparsity of character tables of high rank groups of Lie type},
  author={Michael Larsen and Alexander R. Miller},
  journal={Representation Theory of the American Mathematical Society},
  year={2020}
}
In the high rank limit, the fraction of non-zero character table entries of finite simple groups of Lie type goes to zero. 
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