Counting integral matrices with a given characteristic polynomial

MaRDI QIDQ2736865zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nimish A. Shah

Publication date 11 September 2001

Published in Sankhyā. Series A. Methods and Techniques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002179

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic polynomialintegral \(n\times n\) matricesmonic polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrices, determinants in number theory (11C20) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

Review text

Let \(P\) be a monic polynomial of degree \(n\geq 2\), with integral coefficients, which is irreducible over the rationals. Consider the number, say \(N_r\), of integral \(n\times n\) matrices of (Euclidean) norm at most \(r\), with \(P\) as their characteristic polynomial. It was proved in a paper of \textit{A. Eskin}, \textit{S. Mozes} and the present author [Ann. Math. (2) 143, 253-299 (1996; Zbl 0852.11054)] that, as \(r\to\infty\), \(N_r/r^{n(n- 1)/2}\) converges to a positive constant; we denote the constant by \(c_p\). In the present paper, the author gives a simpler and somewhat more direct proof of this assertion. The argument follows a different route from a certain point onward, using the author's earlier results on the distribution of polynomial-like trajectories on homogeneous spaces [Duke Math. J. 75, 711-732 (1994; Zbl 0818.22005)].NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe author also gives an explicit formula for the constant \(c_P\) in terms of some well-known number-theoretic quantities associated with the polynomial \(P\) (too elaborate to be reproduced here), generalizing a formula obtained in the above mentioned paper of Eskin et al. under certain additional conditions on \(P\).

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