Cogredient standard forms of symmetric matrices over Galois rings of odd characteristic (Q448556)

Summary: Let \(R = \text{GR}(p^s, p^{sm})\) be a Galois ring of characteristic \(p^s\) and cardinality \(p^{sm}\), where \(s\) and \(m\) are positive integers and \(p\) is an odd prime number. Two kinds of cogredient standard forms of symmetric matrices over \(R\) are given, and an explicit formula to count the number of all distinct cogredient classes of symmetric matrices over \(R\) is obtained.