Equality of elementary symplectic group and symplectic group
摘要
V.I. Kopeiko proved that over a Euclidean ring, the symplectic group defined with respect to the standard skew-symmetric matrix is same as the elementary symplectic group. Here we generalize the result of Kopeiko for a symplectic group defined with respect to any invertible skew-symmetric matrix of Pfaffian one. We also establish this equality over a semi-local ring.