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 matrix over an entire antiring can be written as a sum of 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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