Products of positive transvections in the real symplectic group

DOI10.1080/00927879108824188zbMath0726.20032OpenAlexW2112008274MaRDI QIDQ3348199

Erich W. Ellers, Jerry Malzan

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879108824188

zbMATH Keywords

rankinvariantlengthsymplectic transformationreal symplectic groupminimal number of positive transvectionsproduct of positive transvections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Isometrien von Vektorräumen. I
• Conjugacy classes in linear groups
• Decomposition of orthogonal, symplectic, and unitary isometries into simple isometries