# matrix question

• Dec 5th 2008, 12:20 PM
dimuk
matrix question
Let $A \in \mathbb{Z}^{m \times m}$ with $det (A) \not =0$. Then there exists unique matrix $B \in \mathbb{Q}^{m \times m}$ such that AB=BA=det(A)I and B has integer entries.

Help me to prove this.
• Dec 5th 2008, 03:33 PM
NonCommAlg
Quote:

Originally Posted by dimuk
Let $A \in \mathbb{Z}^{m \times m}$ with $det (A) \not =0$. Then there exists unique matrix $B \in \mathbb{Q}^{m \times m}$ such that AB=BA=det(A)I and B has integer entries.

Help me to prove this.

the matrix $B$ is the adjugate of $A.$ the proof of $\text{adj}(A) A=A \ \text{adj}(A)=\det(A)I$ can be found in any linear algebra textbook. the only thing that i have to add here is that if $A \in \mathbb{Z}^{m \times m},$

then from the definition of the adjugate matrix, it's clear that $\text{adj}(A) \in \mathbb{Z}^{m \times m}$ as well. so i don't know why your problem says $\text{adj}(A) \in \mathbb{Q}^{m \times m}$? we also don't need to have $\det(A) \neq 0.$

Edit: just realized that we want a unique $B.$ in this case, the condition $\det(A) \neq 0$ will take care of that.
• Dec 5th 2008, 09:46 PM
dimuk
matrix question
I think that is for uniqueness of B