A result concerning classes of matrices (Q1393439)

This paper is concerned with orders in algebraic number fields, classes of matrices and their connection with ideal matrices and generalizations where the order does not have a power basis. (For the definition of the concepts involved which go back to Poincaré and were studied by \textit{C. G. Latimer} and \textit{C. C. MacDuffee} [Ann. Math. (2) 34, 313--316 (1933; Zbl 0006.29002)], see earlier papers by the author and also a recent paper by\textit{G. B. Wagner} [Math. Ann. 183, 241--249 (1969; Zbl 0209.36002)]). One of the key issues here is to obtain the product of two matrix classes via the product of ideal matrices. However, the solution obtained depends on a certain unimodular matrix which is not, in general, easy to construct.