Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, vol.229, no.3, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
Motivated by the recent work of R. Casals on binary invariants for matrix mutation, we study the matrix congruence relation on quasi-Cartan matrices. In particular, we obtain a classification and determine normal forms modulo 4. As an application, we obtain new mutation invariants, which include the one obtained by R. Casals.