Characteristic functions and Hamilton-Cayley theorem for left eigenvalues of quaternionic matrices

MaRDI QIDQ6502748arXivFDO

Authors Enrique Macias-Virgós, M. J. Pereira-Sáez

Published in arXiv

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18)

Abstract: We introduce the notion of characteristic function of a quaternionic matrix, whose roots are the left eigenvalues. We prove that for all $2imes2$ matrices and for $3imes3$ matrices having some zero entry outside the diagonal there is a characteristic function which is a polynomial. For the other $3imes3$ matrices the characteristic function is a rational function with one point of discontinuity. We prove that Hamilton-Cayley theorem holds in all cases.

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