A note on sums of three square-zero matrices

DOI10.1080/03081087.2016.1202187zbMATH Open1360.15019arXiv1605.05131OpenAlexW2403268247MaRDI QIDQ2979460FDOQ2979460

Authors: Clément de Seguins Pazzis 

Publication date: 25 April 2017

Published in: Linear and Multilinear Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that every complex trace-zero matrix is the sum of four square-zero matrices, but not necessarily of three such matrices. In this note, we prove that for every trace-zero matrix $A$ over an arbitrary field, there is a non-negative integer $p$ such that the extended matrix $Aoplus{0}_p$ is the sum of three square-zero matrices (more precisely, one can simply take $p$ as the number of rows of $A$). Moreover, we demonstrate that if the underlying field has characteristic $2$ then every trace-zero matrix is the sum of three square-zero matrices. We also discuss a counterpart of the latter result for sums of idempotents.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05131

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zbMATH Keywords

decompositionfields with characteristic 2idempotent matricesrational canonical formsquare-zero matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.) (15B33) Matrix equations and identities (15A24)

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