Matrices \(A\) such that \(AA^\dagger-A^\dagger A\) are nonsingular (Q613297)

The authors investigate the class of square matrices \(A\) such that \(AA^{\dagger } - A^{\dagger }A\) is nonsingular, where \(A^{\dagger }\) stands for the Moore-Penrose inverse of \(A\). Among several characterizations they prove that for a matrix \(A\) of order \(n\), the difference \(AA^{\dagger } - A^{\dagger }A\) is nonsingular if and only if \(\mathcal R(A) \oplus \mathcal R(A^*) = \mathbb C_{n,1}\), where \(\mathcal R(\cdot )\) denotes the range space. Moreover, they investigate matrices \(A\) such that \(\mathcal R(A)^\perp = \mathcal R(A^*)\).