Counting symmetric nilpotent matrices

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Authors Andries E. Brouwer, John Sheekey, Rod Gow

Publication date 4 September 2014

Published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view/v21i2p4

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zbMATH Keywords

endomorphismenumerationnilpotent matricesnondegenerate symmetric bilinear form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.) (15B33)

Review text

Summary: We determine the number of nilpotent matrices of order \(n\) over \(\mathbb{F}_q\) that are self-adjoint for a given nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form, and in particular find the number of symmetric nilpotent matrices.

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