Every real symplectic matrix is a product of commutators of real symplectic involutions

DOI10.7153/oam-2021-15-94zbMath1491.15019OpenAlexW3215946803MaRDI QIDQ5865501

Xin Hou

Publication date: 9 June 2022

Published in: Operators and Matrices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.7153/oam-2021-15-94

zbMATH Keywords

involutionssymplectic matricescommutators of involutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Commutativity of matrices (15A27) Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Matrix Lie algebras (15B30)

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