The special orthogonal group is trireflectional.

DOI10.1007/s00013-003-4814-xzbMath1071.20044OpenAlexW2001939108MaRDI QIDQ1881516

Oliver Villa, Erich W. Ellers

Publication date: 5 October 2004

Published in: Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-003-4814-x

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal groupsvector spacesproducts of involutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25)