How to pick a random integer matrix? (and other questions)

Igor Rivin

doi:10.1090/mcom/2986

How to pick a random integer matrix? (and other questions)

Igor Rivin

Pure Mathematics

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Abstract

We discuss the question of how to pick a matrix uniformly (in an appropriate sense) at random from groups big and small. We give algorithms in some cases, and indicate interesting problems in others.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	783-797
Number of pages	15
Journal	Mathematics of Computation
Volume	85
Issue number	298
Early online date	17 Jun 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/2986
Publication status	Published - Mar 2016

Keywords

Groups
Lattices
Matrices
Randomness
Probability

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How to pick a random integer matrix? (and other questions)

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