SL(V) is 4-reflectional

DOI10.1007/BF00181192MaRDI QIDQ755896zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frieder Knüppel, Klaus Nielsen

Publication date 1991

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00181192

zbMATH Keywords

product of four involutionsproduct of three involutionsspecial linear group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

Review text

The authors show that every element of the special linear group SL(V) of a vectorspace V of finite dimension \(n\neq 2\) over a commutative field K is the product of four involutions. Moreover, every element of SL(V) with \(n=\dim V\neq 2\) is the product of three involutions if and only if at least one of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) V has dimension one or four; (2) \(K=GF(2)\), or \(K=GF(3)\), or \(K=GF(5)\) and \(n\not\equiv 2 mod 4\); (3) V has dimension three, and K is of characteristic three, or \(x^ 2+x+1\) is irreducible.

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