# P3614: Largest order of a row-weight-three binary matrix modulo 16

- ID: `P3614`
- Reference: `binary-row-three-matrix-order-mod16`
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## The problem

Determine the largest multiplicative order in \(\operatorname{GL}_6(\mathbb Z/16\mathbb Z)\) of a binary \(6\times6\) matrix having exactly three ones in every row.

### Definitions

- **Definition.** Binary means every entry is 0 or 1 before reduction modulo 16.
- **Definition.** Multiplicative order is the least positive t for which A^t is the identity modulo 16.

### What counts as a solution

- Give an attaining matrix and verify its order, with a complete sweep or structural upper bound for every row-weight-three matrix.

## Status

Status unverified. Orders of constrained matrices over residue rings may have a short structural solution.

## Research packet

### Background and intake notes

Each candidate and its modular power certificate are compact, and the 64 million row choices split cleanly by prefixes.

- There are binomial(6,3)^6 row choices. Reject matrices singular modulo 2, compute their order in GL(6,2), then test at most three successive squares to lift the order modulo 16.
- Trap: invertibility over the integers is irrelevant. A binary matrix is invertible modulo 16 exactly when its reduction modulo 2 is invertible.

- Recorded example: An order-248 matrix has rows 011001, 000111, 110010, 001011, 101001, and 100110.

### Computational notes

- Among 50000 seeded random row choices, 10693 were invertible modulo 2. Exact modular powering found the displayed order 248. Reduction modulo 2 has order at most 63, and the congruence kernel from modulus 2 to 16 has exponent at most 8, giving the preliminary upper bound 504.

### Working on this

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## References

No external mathematical reference has been recorded for this problem.