I know that in general, the only matrices that are multiplicatively commutative are those that are scalar multiples of I, the identity matrix.
But what about matrices that are multiplicatively commutative with only invertible matrices? Is it any different? I don't think so, but I'm not certain, and am struggling to prove it.
Simply, with A and B both being n×n matrices over the reals, what are all A such that AB=BA if B is invertible?
I suppose in group theory this could be phrased as the centre of the general linear group over the reals - S(GLn(R)).
No comments:
Post a Comment