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Variation of centraliser problem in $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Z})$

Let $n$ be the positive integer $\geq 2$. The setting is that that $K \in \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Z})$, people are interested in the centralizer problem: $C(K)=\{ B \in \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Z}) |B^{-1}KB=K \}$

For example, https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06190 provides an algorithm computing the generator of a centralizer. In $n=2$ people have studied them extensively, there are a lot of references.

But not what I am interested in the following: I want to find a group of following or at least find its property: $$C(K)=\{ B \in \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Z}) |B^{T}KB=K \}.$$ I just change inverse to be the transpose. Obviously, $C(K)$ is also a group. Moreover, the $\det(B)=\pm 1$ since one can take determinant on both sides. So I think this problem is much easier than the original problem. Although it seems like all the element$B$ will determine a quadratic surface and we are asking for a set of solutions which are the arithmetic problem. The following two questions are interesting to me.

  1. One obvious question is that, given $K$, is $C(K)$ a finite group?
  2. If so, can one find the maximal order of the group in terms of $n$? For example, in the original conjugate problem, people have shown that the maximal torsion order in $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Z})$ is approximate $e^{n\log(n)^{1/2}}$ http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~nicolas/JofAlgebra98.pdf Other conjugacy property of $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Z})$

Basically, I just want to ask, did people study this type of problem before instead of the conjugacy? Any partial results or keywords are welcome

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