Towards a classification of maximal unicellular bands (Q1333182)

The subject of this paper is bands of \(n \times n\) matrices over a field \(F\) (such a band \(S\) can be taken to be upper-triangular). The ideal structure of a band in \(M_ n(F)\) is given in terms of the diagonals of elements of \(S\). Most results however concern so-called unicellular bands, meaning that the invariant subspaces of \(S\) form a chain; a complete atlas of maximal unicellular bands in \(M_ k(F)\) \((k = 2, 3\), or 4) is given up to similarity. There are results on rank-one operators and it is deduced that unicellular bands in \(M_ n(F)\) have no zero divisors. The final section is devoted to the case of infinite- dimensional spaces.