Dixon's strong 2-generation conjecture for finite simple groups

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Let (Gn)(G_n) be any sequence of finite simple groups such that ∣Gn∣|G_n| tends to infinity with nn. Let P2(G)\mathbb{P}_2(G) denote the probability that two randomly chosen elements generate GG. Dixon's conjecture. The probability satisfies

P2(Gn)⟶1as n⟶∞.\mathbb{P}_2(G_n) \longrightarrow 1 \quad\text{as } n \longrightarrow \infty.

This extends Netto's asymptotic generation prediction from alternating groups to arbitrary sequences of finite simple groups whose orders tend to infinity.

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Timothy C. Burness, “Simple groups, generation and probabilistic methods”, arXiv:1710.10434 (2017).

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