Rank Partitions under Small Perturbations (Q4376565)

Let \(\nu_1,\dots,\nu_m\in\mathbb{F}^n\), where \(\mathbb{F}\) denotes the field of real numbers or the field of complex numbers. A family \((\nu_i:i\in\Gamma)\), where \(\Gamma\subseteq\{1,\dots,m\}\), is said to be \(t\)-independent if there exist pairwise disjoint subsets \(\Gamma_1,\dots,\Gamma_t\) of \(\Gamma\) such that \(\Gamma_1\cup\cdots\cup\Gamma_t=\Gamma\) and \((\nu_i:i\in \Gamma_k)\) is linearly independent, \(k\in\{1,\dots,t\}\). If \(\Gamma\) is a maximal set such that \((\nu_i:i\in\Gamma)\) is \(t\)-independent, then \((\nu_i:i\in \Gamma)\) is said to be a \(t\)-basis of \((\nu_1,\dots,\nu_m)\). All the \(t\)-bases of \((\nu_1,\dots,\nu_m)\) have the same number of elements, which is called the \(t\)-dimension of \((\nu_1,\dots,\nu_m)\) and is denoted by \(d_t\). Let \(d_0=0\) and \(\rho_k=d_k-d_{k-1}\), \(k\in\{1,2,\dots\}\). The sequence \((\rho_1,\rho_2,\dots)\) is called the rank partition of \((\nu_1,\dots,\nu_m)\). A characterization of the rank partitions that can be obtained with arbitrarily small perturbations of the vectors \(\nu_1,\dots,\nu_m\) is given.