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matrix group

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any group of invertible matrices over a specified field, with the group operation of matrix multiplication.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: group-theory, mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • 2011, László Babai, Finite Groups and Complexity Theory: From Leningrad to St Petersburg via Las Vegas, Alexander Kulikov, Nikolay Vereshchagin (editors), Computer Science – Theory and Applications: 6th International Computer Symposium, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6651, page 162, This paper is a personal account of the author's journey through the evolution of some of these interconnections, culminating in recent definitive results on the matrix group membership problem.
  • 2014, Peter Sarnak, Notes on thin matrix groups, Emmanuel Breuillard, Hee Oh (editors), Thin Groups and Superstrong Approximation, Cambridge University Press, page 343, Applications to diophantine problems on orbits of integer matrix groups, the affine sieve, group theory, gonality of curves and Heegaard genus of hyperbolic three manifolds, are given.

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