On the critical group of matrices

Details On the critical group of matrices On the critical group of matrices

2010-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/1008.5176v1

Bulletin Math\'ematique de la Soci\'et\'e des Sciences Math\'ematiques de Roumanie 54 102 (2011) 213-236

Mathematics

Commutative Algebra

18 pages, 5 figures

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Given a graph G with a distinguished vertex s, the critical group of (G,s) is the cokernel of their reduced Laplacian matrix L(G,s). In this article we generalize the concept of the critical group to the cokernel of any matrix with entries in a commutative ring with identity. In this article we find diagonal matrices that are equivalent to some matrices that generalize the reduced Laplacian matrix of the path, the cycle, and the complete graph over an arbitrary commutative ring with identity. We are mainly interested in those cases when the base ring is the ring of integers and some subrings of matrices. Using these equivalent diagonal matrices we calculate the critical group of the m-cones of the l-duplications of the path, the cycle, and the complete graph. Also, as byproduct, we calculate the critical group of another matrices, as the m-cones of the l-duplication of the bipartite complete graph with m vertices in each partition, the bipartite complete graph with 2m vertices minus a matching.

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