Feedback invariants of a pair of matrices with prescribed columns (Q5946193)

In the paper under review the authors study and describe the possible feedback equivalence classes of a pair of matrices \((A, B)\) when some columns are prescribed. This problem has already been studied in particular cases and is closely related to the problem of describing the possible strict equivalence classes of quasiregular pencils with prescribed columns. The general problem of describing the possible strict equivalence classes of a pencil \(M\) when a subpencil \(N\) is prescribed has been studied for a long time. For example, partial answers are known when \(M\) and \(N\) are both regular; when \(M\) is regular and \(N\) arbitrary; when \(M\) is arbitrary and \(N\) is regular; when \(M\) has rank equal to the number of its rows and \(N\) has rank equal to the number of its columns. The problem considered in the paper was solved for the particular case where all the columns of \(A\) are prescribed and all the columns of \(B\) are free [see \textit{I. Zaballa}, Linear Algebra Appl. 101, 9-31 (1988; Zbl 0673.93025)].