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Invertible and nilpotent matrices over antirings

Commutative Algebra 2008-08-14 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper we characterize invertible matrices over an arbitrary commutative antiring S and find the structure of GL_n (S). We find the number of nilpotent matrices over an entire commutative finite antiring. We prove that every nilpotent n×nn \times n matrix over an entire antiring can be written as a sum of log2n\lceil \log_2 n \rceil square-zero matrices and also find the necessary number of square-zero summands for an arbitrary trace-zero matrix to be expressible as their sum.

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@article{arxiv.0806.2996,
  title  = {Invertible and nilpotent matrices over antirings},
  author = {David Dolžan and Polona Oblak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2996},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure, minor changes

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