Canonical forms for Hamiltonian and symplectic matrices and pencils (Q1970456)

The paper is a lengthy work, very technical tools are used. The abstract of the paper is a very good concise exposition of the content: ``We study canonical forms for Hamiltonian and symplectic matrices or pencils under equivalence transformations which keep the class invariant. In contrast to other canonical forms our forms are as close as possible to a triangular structure in the same class. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Hamiltonian and symplectic triangular Jordan, Kronecker and Schur forms. The presented results generalize results of \textit{Lin} and \textit{Ho} (On Schur type decompositions for Hamiltonian and symplectic pencils, Technical Report, Institute of Applied Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 1990) and simplify the proofs presented there''.