Rank equalities related to outer inverses of matrices and applications (Q2758136)

An outer inverse of \(A\) is a matrix \(X\) such that \(XAX=X\); Theorem 2.1 states that for two outer inverses \(X_1,X_2\) \[ r(X_1-X_2)=r \begin{pmatrix} X_1 \cr X_2\end{pmatrix} +r \begin{pmatrix} X_1 \cr X_2\end{pmatrix}-r(X_1) -r(X_2). \] This and similar formulas are applied to give rank equations for Moore-Penrose inverses, group inverses, Drazin inverses, and weighted Moore-Penrose inverses.