International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 31, Pages 1617-1622
doi:10.1155/S0161171204309026

On the class of square Petrie matrices induced by cyclic permutations

Bau-Sen Du

Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Received 2 September 2003

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Abstract

Let n2 be an integer and let P={1,2,,n,n+1}. Let Zp denote the finite field {0,1,2,,p1}, where p2 is a prime. Then every map σ on P determines a real n×n Petrie matrix Aσ which is known to contain information on the dynamical properties such as topological entropy and the Artin-Mazur zeta function of the linearization of σ. In this paper, we show that if σ is a cyclic permutation on P, then all such matrices Aσ are similar to one another over Z2 (but not over Zp for any prime p3) and their characteristic polynomials over Z2 are all equal to k=0nxk. As a consequence, we obtain that if σ is a cyclic permutation on P, then the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of Aσ are all odd integers and hence nonzero.