Saturday, 17 December 2016

linear algebra - Diagonalizing an Integer Matrix



This is, admittedly, not that interesting a question, but it's a small piece of a number theory problem I'm working on, and it's been rather frustrating. As it is technically "homework," feel free to just give suggestions, unless of course it's something really obvious.




I want to prove that for a general integer matrix, AMn(Z), there exist U,VGLn(Z) such that
UAV=[d10  dr 0  00], where r=rankA, diN and di|di+1.




I feel like this should be just a linear algebra thing. I tried to just break it down into elements for just a 2 by 2, and it got so messy, so I'm thinking that's not the way to do it, and I'm wondering if maybe it's just a well known theorem (the issue here of course being that everything is integers, so I can't really apply stuff about diagonalizing matrices over a field). Any assistance on this would be dearly appreciated.



Thanks!


Answer



This is known as the Smith normal form.



Knowing the name, you can have a look at the corresponding wikipedia article and at concrete examples and other questions on this site.


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