English

Tropical matrices and group representations

Combinatorics 2012-03-08 v1

Abstract

The paper gives a complete description of the subgroups of the semigroup of tropical n-by-n matrices up to an isomorphism. In particular, we show that every of these groups has a torsion-free abelian subgroup of index at most n!, proving the conjecture of Johnson and Kambites.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1522,
  title  = {Tropical matrices and group representations},
  author = {Yaroslav Shitov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1522},
  year   = {2012}
}
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