Rigid relations in GL₂F

DOI10.1016/S0024-3795(98)10022-8MaRDI QIDQ1808946zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 27 June 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-3795(98)10022-8

zbMATH Keywords

general linear groups over fieldsrigid relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Other matrix groups over fields (20H20)

Review text

A relation \(g_1\cdots g_n=1\) in a group \(G\) is rigid if and only if for every relation \(g_1'\cdots g_n'=1\) in \(G\), where \(g_i'\) is similar to \(g_i\), there exists \(h\in G\) such that \(g_i'=hg_i h^{-1}\) (\(1\leq i\leq n\)). Let \(F\) be a field. The authors prove that, when \(\text{card}(F)>3\), a relation \(g_1\cdots g_n=1\) in \(\text{GL}_2(F)\) is not rigid if and only if either (a) the relation contains more than 3 nonscalar matrices or (b) it has exactly 3 nonscalar matrices with a common eigenvector over \(F\). Similar results are proved for the cases \(\text{card}(F)=2\) or~3.

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