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The cokernel of a polynomial push-forward of a random integral matrix with concentrated residue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2025
Abstract
We prove new statistical results about the distribution of the cokernel of a random integral matrix with a concentrated residue. Given a prime p and a positive integer n, consider a random $n \times n$ matrix
$X_n$ over the ring
$\mathbb{Z}_p$ of p-adic integers whose entries are independent. Previously, Wood showed that as long as each entry of
$X_n$ is not too concentrated on a single residue modulo p, regardless of its distribution, the distribution of the cokernel
$\mathrm{cok}(X_n)$ of
$X_n$, up to isomorphism, weakly converges to the Cohen–Lenstra distribution, as
$n \rightarrow \infty$. Here on the contrary, we consider the case when
$X_n$ has a concentrated residue
$A_n$ so that
$X_n = A_n + pB_n$. When
$B_n$ is a Haar-random
$n \times n$ matrix over
$\mathbb{Z}_p$, we explicitly compute the distribution of
$\mathrm{cok}(P(X_n))$ for every fixed n and a non-constant monic polynomial
$P(t) \in \mathbb{Z}_p[t]$. We deduce our result from an interesting equidistribution result for matrices over
$\mathbb{Z}_p[t]/(P(t))$, which we prove by establishing a version of the Weierstrass preparation theorem for the noncommutative ring
$\mathrm{M}_n(\mathbb{Z}_p)$ of
$n \times n$ matrices over
$\mathbb{Z}_p$. We also show through cases the subtlety of the “universality” behavior when
$B_n$ is not Haar-random.
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