Products of positive transvections in the real symplectic group

DOI10.1080/00927879108824188MaRDI QIDQ3348199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

ranklengthinvariantsymplectic 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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• Conjugacy classes in linear groups
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