The generation of \(\text{Sp}(\mathbb F_2)\) by transvections
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Publication:1233082
DOI10.1016/0021-8693(76)90105-8zbMath0345.20043MaRDI QIDQ1233082
Publication date: 1976
Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~callan/papers/transvections/transvections.pdf
symplectic groups; transvections; minimal number of factors of elements expressible as product of symplectic transvections
20G15: Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields
20G40: Linear algebraic groups over finite fields
20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups
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