Moore-Penrose inverse in an indefinite inner product space (Q2574344)

The authors study the notion of generalized inverses of matrices in an indefinite inner product space. Specifically, they introduce the concept of the Moore-Penrose inverse in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) where an indefinite inner product is defined by the equation \([x,y]=<x,Ny>\), where \(<.,.>\) denotes the Euclidean inner product on \(\mathbb{C}^n\) and \(N\) is an invertible Hermitian matrix of order \(n\), which is called a weight. Let \(M\) and \(N\) be weights of order \(m\) and \(n\), respectively. The \(MN\)-adjoint of an \(m \times n\) matrix \(A\) denoted \(A^{[\star]}\) is defined by \(A^{[\star]}=N^{-1}A^{\star}M\). For an \(n \times m\) matrix \(X\) consider the following equations: \[ AXA=A, \;\;XAX=X, \;\;(AX)^{[\star]}=AX, \;\;(XA)^{[\star]}=XA. \] If \(X\) satisfies the four equations, then it can be shown to be unique and such an \(X\) is denoted by \(A^{[+]}\) and it is called the Moore-Penrose inverse in an indefinite inner product space. The authors investigate the existence and some properties of \(A^{[+]}\). They prove the equivalence of the Moore-Penrose inverse and the weighted generalized inverse and they consider the question of complementarity of the range space and the null space of the adjoint of a linear map. They also study extensions of results for range-Hermitian matrices to matrices over indefinite inner product spaces. Finally, the authors list some methods for computing the Moore-Penrose inverse in an indefinite inner product space.