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Unitriangular group (UTn​(F))

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The unitriangular group UTn​(F) consists of upper triangular matrices over a field F with every diagonal entry equal to one. Every such matrix is In​+N for a strictly upper triangular matrix N. Products have the same form, and Nn=0 gives the inverse
(In​+N)−1=In​−N+N2−⋯+(−1)n−1Nn−1.
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Thus these matrices form a subgroup of the general linear group. The case UT3​(F3​) is noncommutative but every element has cube equal to the identity matrix: (I3​+N)3=I3​ because N3=0 and 3=0 in the finite field F3​.

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