Notes on Hong's conjectures of real number power LCM matrices
Notes on Hong's conjectures of real number power LCM matrices
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jalgebra.2007.05.005
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发表时间:
2007-09
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0.9
通讯作者:
Mao Li
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作者:
Mao Li
Let e be a real number and S={x1,…,xn} be a set of n distinct positive integers. The set S is said to be gcd-closed (respectively lcm-closed) if (xi,xj)∈S (respectively [xi,xj]∈S) for all 1⩽i,j⩽n. The matrix having eth power [Formula: see text] of the least common multiple of xiand xjas its i,j-entry is called the eth power least common multiple (LCM) matrix, denoted by [Formula: see text] (or abbreviated by ([S]e)). In this paper, we show that for any real number e⩾1 and n⩽7, the power LCM matrix [Formula: see text] defined on any gcd-closed (respectively lcm-closed) set S={x1,…,xn} is nonsingular. This confirms partially two conjectures raised by Hong in [S. Hong, Nonsingularity of matrices associated with classes of arithmetical functions, J. Algebra 281 (2004) 1–14]. Similar results are established for reciprocal real number power GCD matrices.