Friday, September 19, 2025 - 15:30 to 16:30
Thackeray 704
Abstract or Additional Information
How many sublattices of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ have index at most $X$? If we choose such a lattice $\Lambda$ at random, what is the probability that $\mathbb{Z}^n/\Lambda$ is cyclic? What is the probability that its order is odd? Now let $R$ be a random subring of $\mathbb{Z}^n$. What is the probability that $\mathbb{Z}^n/R$ is cyclic? We will see how these questions fit into the study of random groups in number theory and combinatorics. We will discuss connections to Cohen-Lenstra heuristics for class groups of number fields, sandpile groups of random graphs, and cokernels of random matrices over the integers.