Generalizations of the singular value and QR decompositions (Q1180467)

The author provides a state-of-the-art survey of a recently discovered set of generalizations of the ordinary singular value decomposition, which contains all existing generalizations for two and three matrices as special cases. He presents the main theorem and discusses structural properties of these generalized singular value decompositions. Some recent results on a corresponding generalization for any number of matrices of the \(QR\) (or \(URV\)) decomposition are also summarized. A proposal for a standardized nomenclature for generalized singular value decompositions is included in this paper.