Reflecting the Pascal matrix about its main antidiagonal

Citation
L. Abrams et al., Reflecting the Pascal matrix about its main antidiagonal, LINEAR MULT, 47(2), 2000, pp. 129-136
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics
Journal title
LINEAR & MULTILINEAR ALGEBRA
ISSN journal
03081087 → ACNP
Volume
47
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
129 - 136
Database
ISI
SICI code
0308-1087(2000)47:2<129:RTPMAI>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Let B denote either of two varieties of order n Pascal matrix, i.e., one wh ose entries are the binomial coefficients. Let B-R denote the reflection of B about its main antidiagonal. The matrix B is always invertible module n; our main result asserts that B-1 = B-R mod n if and only if n is prime. In the course of motivating this result we encounter and highlight some of th e difficulties with the matrix exponential under modular arithmetic. We the n use our main result to extend the "Fibonacci diagonal" property of Pascal matrices.