The group invertibility of the product of two matrices over ring and its applications (Q2514087)

The manuscript deals with the group inverse of the product of two matrices over associative rings with \(1\). A square matrix \(A\) is said to be group invertible if there exists a matrix \(X\), denoted by \(X=A^{\sharp}\), such that \[ AXA=A, \;\;XAX=X \;\;\text{and} \;\;AX=XA. \] In this paper, sufficient and necessary conditions and some sufficient conditions of the group invertibility of \(AB\) and \(BA\) are given, where \(A \in R^{m \times n}\) and \(B \in R^{n \times m}\), \(R\) being an associative ring with \(1\). From the theoretical results, the representations of the group inverse of two classes \(2 \times 2\) anti-triangular block matrices are presented. These classes are the following: {\parindent=6mm \begin{itemize} \item(1) \(M=\left( \begin{matrix} ACB & A \\ B & 0 \end{matrix} \right)\), where \(A \in R^{m \times n}\), \(B \in R^{n \times m}\) and \(C \in R^{n \times n}\). \item (2) \(M=\left( \begin{matrix} C & A \\ B & 0 \end{matrix} \right)\), where \(A \in R^{m \times n}\), \(B \in R^{n \times m}\), \(C \in R^{n \times n}\), \(R(C)=R(A)\) and \(C^{\sharp}\) exists, \(R(A)\) being the range of \(A\). \end{itemize}}