Conjecture on free relations for symplectic matrix invariants in characteristic two

Let pp be the characteristic of the ground field, let RS ⁣p(n)R^{S\!p(n)} be the invariant ring for n×nn\times n generic matrices under the symplectic group, and let KK_{\infty} denote the ideal of free relations, namely the intersection of the relation ideals KiK_i over all positive matrix sizes. Let N\mathcal{N} be the algebra of formal generators, and write acaTa\stackrel{c}{\sim}a^T when aa is cyclically equivalent to its transpose. Free-relations conjecture. If p=2p=2, then the ideal KK_{\infty} of free relations for RS ⁣p(n)R^{S\!p(n)} is generated by the elements σt(a)\sigma_t(a) for aNa\in\mathcal{N} satisfying acaTa\stackrel{c}{\sim}a^T and odd t>0t>0. The theorem preceding this conjecture establishes that free relations vanish for orthogonal and symplectic invariants when p2p\neq2; the characteristic-two case is presented as the remaining exceptional case, with the proposed generators described in the conjecture.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

A. A. Lopatin, “Free relations for matrix invariants in modular case”, arXiv:1011.5201 (2010).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.