SMALL MAXIMAL SPACES OF NON-INVERTIBLE MATRICES

DOI10.1112/S0024609306018741MaRDI QIDQ3419063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Draisma

Publication date 6 February 2007

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407240

zbMATH Keywords

maximal singular spacerank of a subspace of \(\text{End}(V)\)rank-critical subspace of \(\text{End}(V)\)semisimple Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector spaces, linear dependence, rank, lineability (15A03) Algebraic systems of matrices (15A30) Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

Abstract: A vector space A of matrices is called rank-critical if any vector space that properly contains A has a strictly higher generic rank. I present a sufficient condition for A to be rank-critical, and apply this condition to prove that certain Lie algebra representations have rank-critical images. This contruction yields, for infinitely many n, an 8-dimensional space of n-times-n matrices that is maximal singular (= rank-critical of rank n-1), while--to the best of my knowledge--the minimal dimension of such a space was hitherto believed to grow with n. As another application, I prove that for any semisimple Lie algebra g, the space ad(g) is a rank-critical subspace of End(g).

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