Schur complements of Bézoutians and the inversion of block Hankel and block Toeplitz matrices (Q677121)

The author derives a closed inversion formula for an \(np\times np\) square block Hankel matrix \(H_{n-1}\) with entries from the ring of the \(p\times p\) matrices over a field. The representation of \(H_{n-1}^{-1}\) relies upon a strong structure-preserving property of the Schur complements of the nonsingular leading principal submatrices of a certain generalized Bézoutian of matrix polynomials. These polynomials may be determined by computing iteratively the Schur complements of the nonsingular leading principal submatrices of \(H_{n-1}\) in an augmented block Hankel matrix which is a Bézoutian matrix up to multiplication by proper reverse matrices.