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Singularity Probabilities for Random Matrices over Finite Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2001

JEFF KAHN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA (e-mail: jkahn@math.rutgers.edu)
JÁNOS KOMLÓS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA (e-mail: komlos@math.rutgers.edu)
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Fix q and let Mn be an n × n matrix with entries drawn independently from the finite field Fq according to some distribution μn. It is shown that, except in certain pathological cases, the probability that Mn is nonsingular is asymptotically the same as for uniform entries; that is,

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2001 Cambridge University Press