The codimension of degenerate pencils

DOI10.1016/0024-3795(82)90003-9MaRDI QIDQ1165294zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Friedland, B. Simon

Publication date 1982

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(82)90003-9

zbMATH Keywords

codimension of degenerate pencilsHermitian matricesreal symmetricreducible polynomialvariety of matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57)

Review text

The paper is devoted to the computation of the codimension of a variety of matrices. If \(d_n\) \([d_n(r)]\) denotes the codimension of the set of pairs of \(n\times n\) Hermitian [real symmetric] matrices \((A,B)\) for which \(\det(\lambda I - A - xB)= p(\lambda,x)\) is a reducible polynomial it is shown that \(d(r)\le n - 1\), \(d_n\le n - 1\) \((n\) odd), \(d_n\le n\) \((n\) even). It is shown that the equality holds for \(n=2,3\), and it is conjectured that equality holds for all \(n\).

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• Analytic Properties of Bloch Waves and Wannier Functions
• Simultaneous similarity of matrices

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• The dimension of the variety of normal matrices
• Simultaneous similarity of matrices
• The codimension of singular matrix pairs
• Pencils of complex and real symmetric and skew matrices

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