Decomposition of matrices into commutators of involutions

DOI10.1016/S0024-3795(01)00597-3zbMath1004.20026MaRDI QIDQ1611830

Baodong Zheng

Publication date: 28 August 2002

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

zbMATH Keywords

involutionscommutatorsspecial linear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20)

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