Transvection conjugacy over a finite field

ID: transvection-conjugacy-over-a-finite-field

Every nonidentity transvection has an adapted basis in which it is . Thus all such maps are conjugate in the general linear group. In dimension at least three, a scaling of a third basis vector centralizes this matrix and has arbitrary nonzero determinant; adjusting a conjugator by this scaling proves conjugacy in the special linear group as well.
// Target: algebra.bigb

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