Representations under ring extensions: Latimer-MacDuffee and Taussky correspondences (Q1057327)

The Latimer-MacDuffee duality between similarity classes of nonsingular rational integral \(n\times n\) matrices having a common separable characteristic polynomial f(x) and the classes of faithful ideals in the ring \({\mathbb{Z}}[x]/f(x){\mathbb{Z}}[x]\), is given in this paper from a more general point of view. The semisimple assumption present in previous studies is replaced by the weaker condition that the modules considered become trivial under a suitable extension of the base ring.