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Upper triangular matrices and Billiard Arrays

Combinatorics 2016-01-18 v2 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Fix a nonnegative integer dd, a field F\mathbb{F}, and a vector space VV over F\mathbb{F} with dimension d+1d+1. Let TT denote an invertible upper triangular matrix in Matd+1(F){\rm Mat}_{d+1}(\mathbb{F}). Using TT we construct three flags on VV. We find a necessary and sufficient condition on TT for these three flags to be totally opposite. In this case, we use these three totally opposite flags to construct a Billiard Array BB on VV. It is known that BB is determined up to isomorphism by a certain triangular array of scalar parameters called the BB-values. We compute these BB-values in terms of the entries of TT. We describe the set of isomorphism classes of Billiard Arrays in terms of upper triangular matrices.

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@article{arxiv.1508.04456,
  title  = {Upper triangular matrices and Billiard Arrays},
  author = {Yang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04456},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

23 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1408.0143 by other authors

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