Unitary tridiagonalization in M(4,C)
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Abstract: A question of interest in Linear Algebra is whether all n x n complex matrices can be unitarily tridiagonalised. The answer for all n not equal to 4 (affirmative or negative) has been known for a while, whereas the case n=4 seems to have remained open. In this paper, we settle the n=4 case in the affirmative. Some machinery from complex algebraic geometry needs to be used.
The question is studied whether or not for quadratic \((n,n)\)-matrices \(A\) over the field of complex numbers, there exists a unitary matrix \(U\) sucht hat \(UAU^*\) is tridiagonal. For matrices of dimension \(n\geq 5\) counterexamples are to be found in the literature, as well as proofs for the affirmative answers for the case \(n=3\) and for some special cases of \(n=4\). The author closes this gap by proving that such a unitary matrix \(U\) exists for all matrices \(A\) with \(n\leq 4\).
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