Reflection factorizations of Singer cycles

The number of shortest factorizations into reflections for a Singer cycle in $GL_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ is shown to be $(q^n-1)^{n-1}$. Formulas counting factorizations of any length, and counting those with reflections of fixed conjugacy classes are also given.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: J.B. Lewis, V. Reiner, D. Stanton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2014-01-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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Online Access:https://dmtcs.episciences.org/2401/pdf