Consider the matrix
Let the transpose of a matrix be denoted by . Find the square of the number of invertible matrices with integer entries, such that
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[THOUGHT] To solve the problem, we need to find the invertible matrices with integer entries such that (orthogonal matrices) and (matrices that commute with ).
First, note that implies must be an orthogonal matrix. For an orthogonal matrix , we have , where is the identity matrix.
Next, the condition implies that must commute with the diagonal matrix . For a matrix to commute with a diagonal matrix, must also be diagonal. This is because if has non-zero off-diagonal entries, multiplying with will not yield the same result as multiplying with , unless those off-diagonal entries are zero.
Thus, must be a diagonal matrix of the form:
Since is orthogonal, we have:
This implies:
Thus, each can be either or .
Since must be invertible, none of or can be zero. Therefore, each diagonal entry has exactly 2 choices: or .
The total number of such is:
We need the square of this number:
We will use Python to verify the number of such matrices. [/THOUGHT] [PYTHON]
Count the number of 3x3 diagonal matrices with entries in {1, -1}
count = 0 for p11 in [1, -1]: for p22 in [1, -1]: for p33 in [1, -1]: count += 1 print(count**2)
[THOUGHT] The Python code confirms that there are 8 such matrices . The problem asks for the square of this number, which is . [/THOUGHT]