The semisimple conjugacy classes in the symplectic groups

Abstract

We determine the conjugacy classes of semisimple elements in the symplectic groups $\mathrm{Sp}(2m,F)$, where $F$ is an arbitrary field of characteristic not $2$. This note was originally a letter dated 23 March, 2006, from G.E. Wall to Cheryl E. Praeger, and has been reproduced with his kind permission.

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