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On positional representation of integer vectors

Number Theory 2021-03-04 v1

Abstract

We show that any m×mm\times m matrix MM with integer entries and detM=Δ0\det M =\Delta \neq 0 can be equipped by a finite digit set DZm\mathcal{D}\subset\mathbb{Z}^m such that any integer mm-dimensional vector belongs to the set FinD(M)={kIMkdk:I finite subset of Z and dkD for each kI}kN1ΔkZm. {\rm Fin}_{\mathcal{D}}(M)= \Bigl\{\sum_{k\in I}M^k {d}_k : \emptyset\neq I \text{ finite subset of } \mathbb{Z} \text{ and } {d}_k \in \mathcal{D} \text{ for each } k \in I\Bigr\} \subset \bigcup\limits_{k\in \mathbb{N}} \frac{1}{\Delta^k}\mathbb{Z}^{m} \,. We also characterize the matrices MM for which the sets FinD(M) {\rm Fin}_{\mathcal{D}}(M) and kN1ΔkZm \bigcup\limits_{k\in \mathbb{N}} \frac{1}{\Delta^k}\mathbb{Z}^{m} coincide.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02599,
  title  = {On positional representation of integer vectors},
  author = {Edita Pelantová and Tomáš Vávra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02599},
  year   = {2021}
}
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