The reflection length of a transformation in the unitary group over a finite field

DOI10.1080/03081089308818239zbMath0789.20049OpenAlexW2041723421MaRDI QIDQ4693427

Erich W. Ellers

Publication date: 16 June 1994

Published in: Linear and Multilinear Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03081089308818239

zbMATH Keywords

finite fieldunitary grouplengthHermitian formnumber of factorsproduct of reflections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21)

Related Items (3)

Products of symmetries in unitary groups ⋮ Factoring formal maps into reversible or involutive factors. ⋮ Products of reflections in one conjugacy class in the orthogonal group overGF(3)

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• Products of reflections in the quaternionic unitary group
• Decomposition of orthogonal, symplectic, and unitary isometries into simple isometries
• Products of Reflections in the Unitary Group

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