The maximal orders of finite subgroups in $GL_{n}(\mathbf {Q})$
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Abstract:
We give a relatively simple proof that the orthogonal group over the integers is the unique finite subgroup (up to a conjugation) in $GL_{n}(\mathbf {Z})$ of the maximal order for $n>>1$.References
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Additional Information
- Shmuel Friedland
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7045
- MR Author ID: 69405
- Email: friedlan@uic.edu
- Received by editor(s): August 5, 1996
- Communicated by: Ronald M. Solomon
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 3519-3526
- MSC (1991): Primary 20C10, 20G30
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04283-4
- MathSciNet review: 1443385