Products of diagonalizable matrices

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作者
Botha, JD [1 ]
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[1] Univ S Africa, Dept Math, ZA-0003 Pretoria, South Africa
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10.1016/S0024-3795(97)00344-3
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O29 [应用数学];
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070104 ;
摘要
Let F denote a field such that char(F) not equal 2. It is shown that every square matrix over F is expressible as a product of two diagonalizable matrices, except when F = GF(3), in which case three diagonalizable matrices are needed in general. Partial results for the case where char(F) = 2 is also presented. Finally, the extent to which the nullities of these factors can be prescribed is also investigated. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Inc.
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