Problem Analysis #12

A.X-4.0 (72B) · Run 1

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Problem Statement

Consider the matrix

M=(200020003).M = \begin{pmatrix}2 & 0 & 0 \\0 & 2 & 0 \\0 & 0 & 3\end{pmatrix}.

Let the transpose of a matrix PP be denoted by PTP^T. Find the square of the number of 3×33 \times 3 invertible matrices PP with integer entries, such that

P1=PTandPM=MP.P^{-1} = P^T \quad \text{and} \quad PM = MP.

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Ground Truth
256
Execution Trace
Reasoning Process

[THOUGHT] To solve the problem, we need to find the invertible matrices PP with integer entries such that P1=PTP^{-1} = P^T (orthogonal matrices) and PM=MPPM = MP (matrices that commute with MM).

First, note that P1=PTP^{-1} = P^T implies PP must be an orthogonal matrix. For an orthogonal matrix PP, we have PTP=IP^T P = I, where II is the identity matrix.

Next, the condition PM=MPPM = MP implies that PP must commute with the diagonal matrix MM. For a matrix PP to commute with a diagonal matrix, PP must also be diagonal. This is because if PP has non-zero off-diagonal entries, multiplying PP with MM will not yield the same result as multiplying MM with PP, unless those off-diagonal entries are zero.

Thus, PP must be a diagonal matrix of the form:

P=(p11000p22000p33)P = \begin{pmatrix} p_{11} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & p_{22} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & p_{33} \end{pmatrix}

Since PP is orthogonal, we have:

PTP=(p112000p222000p332)=(100010001)P^T P = \begin{pmatrix} p_{11}^2 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & p_{22}^2 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & p_{33}^2 \end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}

This implies:

p112=1,p222=1,p332=1p_{11}^2 = 1, \quad p_{22}^2 = 1, \quad p_{33}^2 = 1

Thus, each piip_{ii} can be either 11 or 1-1.

Since PP must be invertible, none of p11,p22,p_{11}, p_{22}, or p33p_{33} can be zero. Therefore, each diagonal entry has exactly 2 choices: 11 or 1-1.

The total number of such PP is:

2×2×2=82 \times 2 \times 2 = 8

We need the square of this number:

82=648^2 = 64

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)

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] 64 [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

[THOUGHT] The Python code confirms that there are 8 such matrices PP. The problem asks for the square of this number, which is 82=648^2 = 64. [/THOUGHT] 64\boxed{64}

Final Model Output
64

Comparative Analysis (P12) (Average across runs)

Avg Time Taken

Solar-Open-100B
615.1
K-EXAONE-236B-A23B
380.8
Deepseek-V3.2
262.2
Llama-VARCO-8B-Instruct
95.4
K-EXAONE-236B-A23B
67.8
Kanana-2-30B-Thinking
56.5
Gemini-3-Pro-Preview
42.2
Grok-4.1-fast
34.9
HCX-007(high)
34.1
Kanana-2-30B-Thinking-2601
33.9
Solar-Pro-2 (31B)(high)
27.6
Claude-Opus-4.5
23.5
GPT-5.1 (high)
15.2
A.X-4.0 (72B)
13.4
GPT-5.2 (high)
11.6
EXAONE-4.0.1-32B (high)
4.2

Avg Token Usage

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B
46,063
Kanana-2-30B-Thinking
9,762
Kanana-2-30B-Thinking-2601
8,143
Grok-4.1-fast
7,280
K-EXAONE-236B-A23B
6,253
Deepseek-V3.2
6,155
Solar-Pro-2 (31B)(high)
5,847
Gemini-3-Pro-Preview
5,844
Claude-Opus-4.5
4,758
Llama-VARCO-8B-Instruct
4,633
HCX-007(high)
4,606
Solar-Open-100B
4,529
EXAONE-4.0.1-32B (high)
3,388
A.X-4.0 (72B)
3,352
GPT-5.1 (high)
3,079
GPT-5.2 (high)
2,908