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Nagao's theorem (Theorem)

For any integral domain $k$ , the group of $n\times n$ invertible matrices with coefficients in $k[t]$ is the amalgamated free product of invertible matrices over $k$ and invertible upper triangular matrices over $k[t]$ , amalgamated over the upper triangular matrices of $k$ . More compactly $$\GL{n}{(k[t])}\cong\GL {n}{(k)} *_{B(k)}B(k[t]).$$




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Cross-references: upper triangular matrices, amalgamated free product, coefficients, matrices, invertible, group, integral domain

This is version 3 of Nagao's theorem, born on 2003-10-01, modified 2003-10-01.
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AMS MSC20G15 (Group theory and generalizations :: Linear algebraic groups :: Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields)

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