On star-dagger matrices and the core-EP decomposition (Q6056232)

A square complex matrix \(A\) is star-dagger when \(A^*A^\dag = A^\dag A^*\) (the superscript \({}^*\) denotes the conjugate transpose). The authors give some properties of star-dagger matrices by using the following result established by \textit{H. Wang} [Linear Algebra Appl. 508, 289--300 (2016; Zbl 1346.15003)]: Theorem. Any square matrix \(A\) of index \(k\) can be decomposed as \[ A = U \left[ \begin{array}{cc} T & S \\ 0 & N \end{array} \right] U^*, \] where \(T\) is a nonsingular matrix and \(N\) is nilpotent whose index is \(k\). Also, using the aformentioned decomposition, the authors give some properties of partial isometries (\(A^\dag = A^*\)), bi-normal matrices (\([AA^*,A^*A]=0\)), bi-dagger matrices (\((A^\dag)^2 = (A^2)^\dag\)), bi-EP matrices(\([AA^\dag,A^\dag A]=0\)). Here, \([M,N]\) denotes the commutator of \(M\) and \(N\), i.e., \([M,N]=MN-NM\).