Is working out the smith normal form trivial?












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What's the point of using elementary column operations to work out the smith normal form of a matrix of reals when it is easy to work out exactly how many redundant equations there are from the row reduced matrix, thus identifying the variable s associated with the smith normal form?










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    Could you provide some context? Smith normal form can be obtained in a much more general setting. For instance, one can show the fundamental theorem of finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain using this form.
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What's the point of using elementary column operations to work out the smith normal form of a matrix of reals when it is easy to work out exactly how many redundant equations there are from the row reduced matrix, thus identifying the variable s associated with the smith normal form?










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    Could you provide some context? Smith normal form can be obtained in a much more general setting. For instance, one can show the fundamental theorem of finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain using this form.
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    – Dean Young
    Jan 21 at 4:44














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What's the point of using elementary column operations to work out the smith normal form of a matrix of reals when it is easy to work out exactly how many redundant equations there are from the row reduced matrix, thus identifying the variable s associated with the smith normal form?










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What's the point of using elementary column operations to work out the smith normal form of a matrix of reals when it is easy to work out exactly how many redundant equations there are from the row reduced matrix, thus identifying the variable s associated with the smith normal form?







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  • $begingroup$
    Could you provide some context? Smith normal form can be obtained in a much more general setting. For instance, one can show the fundamental theorem of finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain using this form.
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    – Dean Young
    Jan 21 at 4:44


















  • $begingroup$
    Could you provide some context? Smith normal form can be obtained in a much more general setting. For instance, one can show the fundamental theorem of finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain using this form.
    $endgroup$
    – Dean Young
    Jan 21 at 4:44
















$begingroup$
Could you provide some context? Smith normal form can be obtained in a much more general setting. For instance, one can show the fundamental theorem of finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain using this form.
$endgroup$
– Dean Young
Jan 21 at 4:44




$begingroup$
Could you provide some context? Smith normal form can be obtained in a much more general setting. For instance, one can show the fundamental theorem of finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain using this form.
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– Dean Young
Jan 21 at 4:44










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