Integral congruence conjecture for skew-symmetric matrices

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Let AA and HH be skew-symmetric matrices with integer entries. Assume that HH is nondegenerate, \fam0rkA≤\fam0rkH\mathop{\fam0 rk} A\leq\mathop{\fam0 rk} H, and every \fam0rkH×\fam0rkH\mathop{\fam0 rk} H\times\mathop{\fam0 rk} H minor of AA is divisible by det⁡H\det H.

Integral congruence conjecture. There is an integer matrix YY such that

A=YTHY.A=Y^T H Y.

The divisibility condition is automatic when \fam0rkA<\fam0rkH\mathop{\fam0 rk} A<\mathop{\fam0 rk} H. The source presents this matrix assertion as the ingredient needed for the corresponding characterization of Z\mathbb Z-embeddings of kk-complexes; its resolution status is not specified here.

References

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A. Skopenkov, “Embeddings of k-complexes in 2k-manifolds and minimum rank of partial symmetric matrices”, arXiv:2112.06636 (2026).

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