Groups generated by matrices of finite order

DOI10.1007/S00233-025-10540-3MaRDI QIDQ6962890zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mai Hoang Bien, Trinh Quoc Huy, Nguyen Anh Sy, Nguyen Phu Thinh, L. Q. Truong

Publication date 8 July 2025

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00233-025-10540-3

zbMATH Keywords

generators of matrix groupsinfinite matrixmatrix of finite orderproduct of matricestriangular matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25)

Review text

This paper investigates when matrices over a ring can be written as products of matrices whose orders divide a fixed integer \(k > 1\). The main result gives necessary and sufficient conditions for triangular matrices to admit such a factorization, improving and generalizing prior work on products of involutions and roots of unity.\N\NThe authors extend these results to \(\mathrm{GL}_{n}(F)\) and to the Vershik-Kerov group, showing that matrices whose determinant or diagonal entries have order dividing a power of \(k\) belong to the subgroup generated by matrices of order dividing \(k\) and they establish uniform bounds on the number of factors needed, namely at most four or five. In particular, they sharpen a known bound by showing that five involutions suffice in a case previously requiring six.

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