Generation of special linear groups by transvections

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(86)90041-4MaRDI QIDQ1072653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen P. Humphries

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(86)90041-4

zbMATH Keywords

generating setspecial linear grouptransvections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

The group of all transvections is a generating set for the special linear group SL(n,K). The author assumes that the field K is finite. Then he shows that SL(n,K) is already generated by a suitably chosen set of n transvections. He goes on classifying all sets of n transvections generating SL(n,K). Clearly, a set of transvections containing fewer than n elements will not generate SL(n,K).

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