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Finite Fields and Their Applications 17 (2011) 532–551 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Finite Fields and Their Applications /locate/ffa A semi-recursion for the number of involutions in special orthogonal groups over finite fields Feiqi Jiang a , C. Ryan Vinroot b,∗ a Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, 2074 East Hall, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States b Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Let I (n) be the number of involutions in a special orthogonal group Received 27 August 2010 SO(n,F ) defined over a finite field with q elements, where q is q Revised 21 January 2011 the power of an odd prime. Then the numbers I (n) form a semi- Accepted 27 March 2011 recursion, in that for m 1 we have Available online 21 April 2011 Communicated by Zhe-Xian Wan 2m+2 2m 2m I (2m + 3) = q + 1 I (2m + 1) + q q − 1 I (2m − 2). MSC: 05A19 05A30 We give a purely combinatorial proof of this result, and we apply 20G40 it to give a universal bound for the character degree sum for finite