Re: too many special linear matrices
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- Subject: [mg68711] Re: [mg68687] too many special linear matrices
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:18:17 -0400 (EDT)
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The order of the special linear group with entries in F_q --the field
with q elements (where q is a power of a prime) is well known to be:
f[n_, q_] := (1/(q - 1))*Product[q^n - q^i, {i, 0, n - 1}]
This gives:
Table[f[n,2],{n,1,5}]
{1,6,168,20160,9999360}
Table[f[n,3],{n,1,5}]
{1,24,5616,12130560,237783237120}
The list of results you quote in your post seems to be a union of
these two (corresponding to taking coefficients in the integers
module 2 and modulo 3). Bu how on earth did you get 60 using the
formula you quote from Blyth and Robertson?
In any case, this formula seems to be simply f[2,p] (p any prime)
which you have somehow managed to misstate.
Simplify[f[2, p]]
p*(p^2 - 1)
Andrzej Kozlowski
On 16 Aug 2006, at 09:36, Roger Bagula wrote:
> In an old group theory book they talk about special linear groups over
> the modulo of prime
> Integers: SL[2,P]
> The formula given is
> number of matrices in the group =If [n=2,6,Prime[n]*(Prime[n]^2-1)]
> (Essentual Student Algebra, Volume 5 ,Groups, T.S. /Blyth and E.F.
> Robertson,1986, Chapman and Hall,New York, page 14)
> So I tried to generate the elements of the group in Mathematica by a
> search program for Determinant one
> matrices.
> I get:
> 6,24,124,348
> instead of what I should get:
> 6,12,60,168
> Since the famous Klein group SL[2,7] is one of these ,
> it would help to have a set of elements for that group!
>
> Mathematica code:
> Clear[M, k, s]
> M = {{l, m}, {n, o}};
> k = 3
> s =
> Union[Delete[Union[Flatten[Table[Flatten[Table[Table[If[Mod[Abs[Det
> [M]],
> k] - 1 == 0, M , {}], {l, 0,k - 1}], {m, 0, k - 1}], 1], {n, 0, k -
> 1},
> {o, 0, k - 1}], 2]], 1]]
> Dimensions[s]
>
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