I just found this problem. If you try the matrix $A^nB^m$, then your question for such matrices is equivalent to this number theory question: Can $9^n+2*9^n*2^m-12*3^n*2^m+2*3^n+2^(2*m)*9^n+2^(2*m)+2*2^m+9$ be a square provided $m,n\ne 0$. I hope number theorists here can say something about it. The answer to problem with question mark is "obviously NO". To be undecidable, you should have a mass problem. For given $A,B$, you have the following problem: given a word $W(A,B)$ is it true that the matrix has an integer eigenvalue. That problem is obviously decidable. The question of whether this is true for *every* word $W$ requires answer "yes" or "no" and is not a mass problem. You can still ask whether it is independent from ZF or even ZFC (or unprovable in the Peano arithmetic). What Bjorn had in mind is a completely different and much harder problem when you include $A, B$ in the input and ask if for this $A$, $B$ some product $W(A,B)$ not of the form $A^n, B^m$ has an integer eigenvalue. This is a mass problem which could be undecidable (although he, of course, did not prove it). But this has nothing to do with your original question.