Half turns in characteristic 2.

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2015.06.001MaRDI QIDQ490890zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erich W. Ellers, Oliver Villa

Publication date 21 August 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2015.06.001

zbMATH Keywords

factorizationshalf turnsorthogonal groupsproducts of reflectionsquadratic formssingular vectorssymmetric bilinear forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Other matrix groups over fields (20H20) Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25) Geometry of classical groups (51N30)

Review text

Let \(V\) be a nonsingular quadratic space over a field \(K\) of characteristic 2. An element of the orthogonal group is called a \textit{half turn} if it is a product of two distinct commuting reflections. The authors show that if \(n>4\), then every element \(\pi\) in the special orthogonal group \(\mathrm{SO}(V)\) is a product of an even number of half turns. If \(\dim B(\pi)=2k\), then the length of \(\pi\) with respect to the half turns is \(k\), \(k+1\), or \(k+2\). The case \(2K=K\) was done previously [\textit{E. W. Ellers}, J. Algebra 99, 275-294 (1986; Zbl 0587.20025)].

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