Products of cyclic similarity classes in the groups GL_n(F)

DOI10.1016/0024-3795(94)90192-9MaRDI QIDQ1329933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arieh Lev

Publication date 15 August 1994

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(94)90192-9

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesfactorizationsJordan canonical formproducts of cyclic unipotent matricesprojective special linear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Other matrix groups over fields (20H20)

Review text

Let \(\text{SL}_n(F)\) and \(\text{PSL}_n(F)\) denote the special linear and the projective special linear group, respectively. Assume \(|F|\geq 4\). The author shows that the group \(G=\text{PSL}_n(F)\) has a conjugacy class \(C\) such that \(C^2=G\). Further, if \(A\in\text{SL}_n(F)\), then \(A\) is a product of three cyclic unipotent matrices, if \(A\) is nonscalar, then it is a product of two cyclic unipotent matrices. These results are obtained as consequences of a factorization of any nonscalar matrix into two cyclic matrices having prescribed Jordan canonical form.

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