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Decomposition of the Steinberg group over local rings into involutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Ji Zhu Nan
Ji Zhu Nan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Northeast Normal University, Chang Chun 130024, China
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We consider the stable Steinberg group St (R) over local rings. An element x is called an involution if x2 = 1. We prove that every element δ in St (R) is the product of at most 5 involutions.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 97 - 107
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2000

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