On congruence of complex matrices (Q1781916)

It was proved recently that any square matrix \(A\) over a field is congruent to its transpose \(A^t\), in the sense that \(P^{t}AP=A^t\), for some nonsingular matrix \(P\). All proofs were based on the structure theory of general asymmetric bilinear forms or on a rather lengthy algorithmic approach. Here, an independent proof by means of direct matrix computations is given that explicit matrices transform each of a standard set of normal forms to its transpose for square complex matrices under the relation of congruence.