Kronecker Square Roots and the Block Vec Matrix

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.122.01.60MaRDI QIDQ2941663zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Ignacio Ojeda Martínez de Castilla

Publication date 21 August 2015

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8149

zbMATH Keywords

Kronecker productfactorizationsquare root of a matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69)

Abstract: Using the block vec matrix, I give a necessary and sufficient condition for factorization of a matrix into the Kronecker product of two other matrices. As a consequence, I obtain an elementary algorithmic procedure to decide whether a matrix has a square root for the Kronecker product.

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