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Some Properties of the Rank and Invariant Factors of Matrices*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

R.E. Gomory ,
A.J. Hoffman  and
N.C. Hsu
R.E. Gomory
Affiliation:
I. B. MYorktown HeightsN. Y.
A.J. Hoffman
Affiliation:
I. B. MYorktown HeightsN. Y.
N.C. Hsu
Affiliation:
I. B. MYorktown HeightsN. Y.
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Some years ago, G. Pall observed that the invariant factors of the incidence matrices of a certain pair of non-isomorphic projective planes of order 9 were different. With the aim of investigating such phenomena experimentally, we have constructed a code to calculate the invariant factors of rational integral matrices (actually, we compute the Smith's normal form of these matrices, as described, e.g., in MacDuffee [2; p. 41]), and this note is in the nature of a report on some preliminary experiments in the use of this code. In particular, we have computed the invariant factors of all (0, 1) matrices of order ≤ 8, with constant row and column sums, and these data are presented in the Appendix.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 1964 , pp. 85 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1964

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