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Enumerating Diagonalizable Matrices over $\mathbb{Z}_{p^k}$

Combinatorics 2024-12-17 v1 Group Theory Number Theory

Abstract

Although a good portion of elementary linear algebra concerns itself with matrices over a field such as R\mathbb{R} or C\mathbb{C}, many combinatorial problems naturally surface when we instead work with matrices over a finite field. As some recent work has been done in these areas, we turn our attention to the problem of enumerating the square matrices with entries in Zpk\mathbb{Z}_{p^k} that are diagonalizable over Zpk\mathbb{Z}_{p^k}. This turns out to be significantly more nontrivial than its finite field counterpart due to the presence of zero divisors in Zpk\mathbb{Z}_{p^k}.

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@article{arxiv.2412.11358,
  title  = {Enumerating Diagonalizable Matrices over $\mathbb{Z}_{p^k}$},
  author = {Catherine Falvey and Heewon Hah and William Sheppard and Brian Sittinger and Rico Vicente},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11358},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, published in Involve, a Journal of Mathematics

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