Factorization and similarity in GL(2,Z)

DOI10.1016/S0024-3795(96)00557-5MaRDI QIDQ5961700zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. P. Henniger

Publication date 22 April 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-3795(96)00557-5

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionsgeneral linear groups over the integerspair of matricessimilarity problemstandard matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25)

Review text

The author provides necessary and sufficient conditions for a pair of matrices \(A\), \(B\) in \(\text{GL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\) to be similar. (By definition \(A\), \(B\) are similar if and only if there exists \(C\in\text{GL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\) such that \(B=C^{-1}AC\).) It is proved that every matrix in \(\text{GL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\) is similar to one in ``standard form. Using the theory of continued fractions the author provides a solution to the similarity problem for ``standard matrices.

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