Invariant subspaces of nilpotent operators and LR-sequences (Q1300158)

Invariant subspaces of finite-dimensional nilpotent operators \(T\) are systematically studied. It is shown that the Jordan model, which is a nilpotent operator \(T\) determined by a partition i.e. by a nonincreasing sequence of nonnegative integers designating the sizes of Jordan blocks of \(T\), determines the similarity orbit in the lattice of invariant subspaces of \(T\). Relations between invariant subspaces and various types of LR-sequences (Littlewood-Richardson sequences) are analyzed. The study of different equivalence classes of invariant subspaces provides some interesting properties of the lattice of invariant subspaces of \(T\).