Block generalized inverses (Q1229275)

The existence of the Moore-Penrose inverse is discussed for elements of a *-regular ring \(R\). A technique is developed for computing conditional and reflexive inverses for matrices in \(R_{2\times 2}\), which is then used to calculate the Moore-Penrose inverse for these matrices. Several applications are given, generalizing many of the classical results; in particular, we shall emphasize the cases of bordered matrices, Schur complements, block-rank formulae and EP elements.