On pairs of matrices generating matrix rings and their presentations

Details On pairs of matrices generating matrix rings and their presentations On pairs of matrices generating matrix rings and their presentations

2005-12-09

arxiv.org/abs/math/0512186v2

Journal of Algebra, 310 (2007), no. 1, 15--40

Mathematics

Rings and Algebras

33 pages. One typo has been corrected: in the first line of the proof of Theorem 2.19 on p. 16, $G_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ was replac

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Let $M_n(\mathbb{Z})$ the ring of $n$-by-$n$ matrices with integral entries, and $n \geq 2$. This paper studies the set $G_n(\mathbb{Z})$ of pairs $(A,B) \in M_n(\mathbb{Z})^2$ generating $M_n(\mathbb{Z})$ as a ring. We use several presentations of $M_{n}(\mathbb{Z})$ with generators $X=\sum_{i=1}^n E_{i+1,i}$ and $Y=E_{11}$ to obtain the following consequences. \begin{enumerate} \item Let $k \geq 1$. Then the rings $M_n(\mathbb{Q})^k$ and $\bigoplus_{j=1}^{k} M_{n_j} (\mathbb{Z})$, where $n_1, ..., n_k \geq 2$ are pairwise relatively prime, have presentations with 2 generators and finitely many relations. \item Let $D$ be a commutative domain of sufficiently large characteristic over which every finitely generated projective module is free. We use 4 relations for $X$ and $Y$ to describe all representations of the ring $M_{n}(D)$ into $M_{m}(D)$ for $m \geq n$. \item We obtain information about the asymptotic density of $G_n(F)$ in $M_n(F)^2$ over different fields, and over the integers. \end{enumerate}

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