Signature of symmetric rational matrices and the unitary dual of lie groups

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey Adams;B. David Saunders;Zhendong Wan

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD;University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A key step in the computation of the unitary dual of a Lie group is the determination if certain rational symmetric matrices are positive semi-definite. The size of some of the computations dictates that high performance integer matrix computations be used. We explore the feasibility of this approach by developing three algorithms for integer symmetric matrix signature and studying their performance both asymptotically and experimentally on a particular matrix family constructed from the exceptional Weyl group E8. We conclude that the computation is doable, with a parallel implementation needed for the largest representations.