Products of Involutions in Steinberg Group over Skew Fields

Consider the stable Steinberg group St(K) over a skew field K. An element x is called an involution if x2 = 1. In this paper, an involution is allowed to be the identity. The authors prove that an element A of GLn(K) up to conjugation can be represented as BC, where B is lower triangular and C is simultaneously upper triangular. Furthermore, B and C can be chosen so that the elements in the main diagonal of B areβ1,β2, ...,βn, and of C areγ1,γ2,... ,γnCn, where cn∈[K*, K*] and = det A. It is also proved that every element 6 in St(K) is a product of 10 involutions.