Can one factor the classical adjoint of a generic matrix?

DOI10.1007/S00031-005-1101-XMaRDI QIDQ862257zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George M. Bergman

Publication date 24 January 2007

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306126

zbMATH Keywords

matrix factorizationdeterminantintegral domaingeneric matrixclassical adjoint

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Sphere bundles and vector bundles in algebraic topology (55R25) Valuations and their generalizations for commutative rings (13A18)

Abstract: Let k be a field, n a positive integer, X a generic nxn matrix over k (i.e., a matrix (x_{ij}) of n^2 independent indeterminates over the polynomial ring k[x_{ij}]), and adj(X) its classical adjoint. It is shown that if char k=0 and n is odd, then adj(X) is not the product of two noninvertible nxn matrices over k[x_{ij}]. If n is even and >2, a restricted class of nontrivial factorizations occur. The nonzero-characteristic case remains open. The operation adj on matrices arises from the (n-1)st exterior power functor on modules; the same question can be posed for matrix operations arising from other functors.

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