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Scalar matrix quadratic residues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Gordon Pall
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University, California Institute of Technology.
Olga Taussky
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University, California Institute of Technology.
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No systematic study seems to have been made of so natural a question as the analogue for matrices of quadratic residues. One generalization of x2 (x an integer) is X2 (X an integral matrix). Another is XX, where the prime means “transpose”. We study here the solvability for X of the congruence

where p is a prime, r ≥ 1; I (the identity matrix) and X are n-by-n; and a is an integer not divisible by p2.

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Copyright © University College London 1965

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