The extended covering number of SL_n is n+1.

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2006.03.011zbMATH Open1104.20047OpenAlexW2007952237MaRDI QIDQ855554FDOQ855554

Frieder Knüppel, Klaus Nielsen

Publication date: 7 December 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2006.03.011

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesspecial linear groupsextended covering numberslength theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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• Elementary covering numbers in odd-dimensional unitary groups
• Covering GL(V) and products of blockcyclic matrices
• Covering singular linear semi-groups
• On products of conjugacy classes in general linear groups
• Products of conjugacy classes in Chevalley groups. I: Extended covering numbers

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