Minkowski half-turns

DOI10.1007/BF00147602MaRDI QIDQ583609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frieder Knüppel, G. Thomsen, Klaus Nielsen

Publication date 1990

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00147602

zbMATH Keywords

half-turnsorthogonal vector space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25)

Review text

Let V be a finite-dimensional orthogonal vector space over a commutative field with characteristic \(\neq 2\). Assume that the radical is 1- dimensional. It was shown by \textit{E. Ellers} [Geom. Dedicata 15, 363-375 (1984; Zbl 0539.51007)] that the so called half-turns (a special type of involutions of O(V)) generate the subgroup of O(V) with determinant 1. The authors give a self-contained solution for the corresponding length- problem, i.e. the problem of finding the minimal number of half turns needed for generating a given transformation.

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