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Products of Riordan arrays of finite orders

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We prove that every Riordan array over \(\mathbb {C}\) whose main diagonal consists only of ones can be written as a product of at most five Riordan arrays of finite orders.

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Słowik, R. Products of Riordan arrays of finite orders. J Algebr Comb 56, 1055–1062 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-022-01145-y

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