Spaces of symmetric matrices of bounded rank (Q1319988)

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    Spaces of symmetric matrices of bounded rank (English)
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    19 April 1994
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    This paper concerns certain subspaces of the space \({\mathcal S}_ n(F)\) of all \(n\times n\) symmetric matrices over a field \(F\). Given \(t < n\), a subspace \(W\) of \({\mathcal S}_ n (F)\) is a \(\overline t\)-subspace if it consists only of matrices of rank at most \(t\). It is shown that a \(\overline t\)-subspace of maximal possible dimension is congruent to one of two possible types of subspace. The argument is of a graph-theoretical nature.
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    bounded rank
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    subspaces
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    symmetric matrices
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    dimension
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