Unitriangular factorizations of Chevalley groups.

DOI10.1007/S10958-012-0826-ZzbMATH Open1261.20051OpenAlexW2075951782WikidataQ114225278 ScholiaQ114225278MaRDI QIDQ690766FDOQ690766

Authors A. V. Smolensky, Nikolai Vavilov, Balasubramanian Sury

Publication date 29 November 2012

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5414

zbMATH Keywords

Chevalley groupsirreducible root systemsunitriangular factorizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Linear algebraic groups over adèles and other rings and schemes (20G35)

Abstract: Lately, the following problem has attracted a lot of attention in various contexts: find the shortest factorisation $G=U{U}^{-}U{U}^{-}\mathrm{...}{U}^{pm}$ of a Chevalley group $G=G(Phi,R)$ in terms of the unipotent radical $U=U(Phi,R)$ of the standard Borel subgroup $B=B(Phi,R)$ and the unipotent radical $U^{-}=U^{-}(Phi,R)$ of the opposite Borel subgroup $B^{-}=B^{-}(Phi,R)$. So far, the record over a finite field was established in a 2010 paper by Babai, Nikolov, and Pyber, where they prove that a group of Lie type admits unitriangular factorisation $G=U{U}^{-}U{U}^{-}U$ of length 5. Their proof invokes deep analytic and combinatorial tools. In the present paper we notice that from the work of Bass and Tavgen one immediately gets a much more general result, asserting that over any ring of stable rank 1 one has unitriangular factorisation $G=U{U}^{-}U{U}^{-}$ of length 4. Moreover, we give a detailed survey of triangular factorisations, prove some related results, discuss prospects of generalisation to other classes of rings, and state several unsolved problems. Another main result of the present paper asserts that, in the assumption of the Generalised Riemann's Hypothesis, Chevalley groups over the ring $IntBig[displaystyle1overpBig]$ admit unitriangular factorisation $G=U{U}^{-}U{U}^{-}U{U}^{-}$ of length 6. Otherwise, the best length estimate for Hasse domains with infinite multiplicative groups that follows from the work of Cooke and Weinberger, gives 9 factors.

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