Abstract
We show that almost every entry in the character table of
Funding source: National Science Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1903038
Funding statement: The first author is partially supported by the NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DMS-1903038 and by the Oswald Veblen Fund. The second author is partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, and a Simons Investigator Grant from the Simons Foundation.
Acknowledgements
We thank the referees for their careful reading.
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