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Timeline for Commutative subalgebras of M_n

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Aug 3, 2010 at 18:55 answer added B A Sethuraman timeline score: 0
Aug 3, 2010 at 14:28 answer added Pooja Singla timeline score: 1
Jul 7, 2010 at 18:13 history edited Harry Gindi CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jul 7, 2010 at 18:06 answer added B A Sethuraman timeline score: 8
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Jun 22, 2010 at 20:27 history edited Charles Matthews CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jun 22, 2010 at 16:05 answer added Robin Chapman timeline score: 5
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Jun 22, 2010 at 14:52 history edited Carmen CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jun 22, 2010 at 14:14 comment added Jan Jitse Venselaar Of course, I meand $r \leq$... And Chapman's answer below has a much clearer explanation.
Jun 22, 2010 at 14:00 answer added Robin Chapman timeline score: 25
Jun 22, 2010 at 13:49 comment added Jan Jitse Venselaar Some searching turned up eom.springer.de/m/m062790.htm. According to it there is a commutative subalgebra of dimension $r$ of the $n \times n$ matrices if and only if $$r< \left[ \frac{n^2}{4}\right] + 1$$ It mentions Schur's theorem, presumably the linear algebra version, but I don't immediately how it follows from that. The set of conjugacy classes of maximal commutative subalgebras is finite if $n<6$ and infinite if $n>6$. It does not explain the case $n=6$.
Jun 22, 2010 at 13:36 history asked Carmen CC BY-SA 2.5