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On affine spaces of alternating matrices with constant rank

Rings and Algebras 2023-07-21 v1

Abstract

Let F\mathbb{F} be a field, and nr>0n \geq r>0 be integers, with rr even. Denote by An(F)\mathrm{A}_n(\mathbb{F}) the space of all nn-by-nn alternating matrices with entries in F\mathbb{F}. We consider the problem of determining the greatest possible dimension for an affine subspace of An(F)\mathrm{A}_n(\mathbb{F}) in which every matrix has rank equal to rr (or rank at least rr). Recently Rubei has solved this problem over the field of real numbers. We extend her result to all fields with large enough cardinality. Provided that nr+3n \geq r+3 and Fmin(r1,r2+2)|\mathbb{F}|\geq \min\bigl(r-1,\frac{r}{2}+2\bigr), we also determine the affine subspaces of rank rr matrices in An(F)\mathrm{A}_n(\mathbb{F}) that have the greatest possible dimension, and we point to difficulties for the corresponding problem in the case nr+2n\leq r+2.

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@article{arxiv.2307.10347,
  title  = {On affine spaces of alternating matrices with constant rank},
  author = {Clément de Seguins Pazzis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10347},
  year   = {2023}
}

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