Decomposition of matrices from $SL_ 2(K[x, y])$
Abstract: Let $\mathbb{K}$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and $\mathbb{K}[x,y]$ the polynomial ring. The group $\text{SL}{2}\left(\mathbb{K}[x,y]\right)$ of all matrices with determinant equal to $1$ over $\mathbb{K}[x,y]$ can not be generated by elementary matrices. The known counterexample was pointed out by P.M. Cohn. Conversely, A.A.Suslin proved that the group $\text{SL}{r}\left(\mathbb{K}[x_{1},\dots,x_{n}]\right)$ is generated by elementary matrices for $r\ge 3$ and arbitrary $n\geq 2$, the same is true for $n=1$ and arbitrary $r.$ It is proven that any matrix from $\text{SL}{2}\left(\mathbb{K}[x,y]\right)$ with at least one entry of degree $\le 2$ is either a product of elementary matrices or a product of elementary matrices and of a matrix similar to the one pointed out by P. Cohn. For any matrix $\begin{pmatrix}\begin{array}{cc} f & g\ -Q & P \end{array}\end{pmatrix}\in\text{SL}{2}\left(\mathbb{K}[x,y]\right)$, we obtain formulas for the homogeneous components $P_i , Q_i$ for the unimodular row $(-Q, P) $ as combinations of homogeneous components of the polynomials $f, g, $ respectively, with the same coefficients.
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