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Surjectivity of near square random matrices

Statistics Theory 2018-02-02 v1 Combinatorics Number Theory Probability Statistics Theory

Abstract

We show that a nearly square iid random integral matrix is surjective over the integral lattice with very high probability. This answers a question by Koplewitz. Our result extends to sparse matrices as well as to matrices of dependent entries.

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@article{arxiv.1802.00001,
  title  = {Surjectivity of near square random matrices},
  author = {Hoi H. Nguyen and Elliot Paquette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00001},
  year   = {2018}
}

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20 pages

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