Some Classes of Invertible Matrices in GF(2)

James S. Plank and Adam L. Buchsbaum.

August 16, 2007

Technical Report UT-CS-07-599
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996

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Abstract

Invertible matrices in GF(2) are important for constructing MDS erasure codes. This paper proves that certain classes of matrices in GF(2) are invertible, plus some additional properties about invertible matrices.

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