On the structure of summability fields (Q762382)

It is known that an almost-coregular matrix A is replaceable if and only if the space \(\phi\) of all finite sequences is not dense in the distinguished subset P of the summability field \(c_ A\). The present authors show that this characterization of replaceability is also true for the class of \(\mu\)-unique matrices with \({\bar \phi}\) finitely codimensional in \(c_ A\). (This class overlaps with the class of almost- coregular matrices.) An example is provided to show that the result does not hold if \(\dim (c_ A/{\bar \phi})\) is infinite. Also, it is shown that for a reversible matrix A the codimension of \({\bar \phi}\) in \(c_ A\) is closely related to the dimension of the space \(\{t\in \ell | tA=0\}\), the space of left divisors of zero of A.