Potter, Wielandt, and Drazin on the matrix equation AB= BA: new answers to old questions

DOI10.2307/4145039MaRDI QIDQ3563728zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Volker Mehrmann, Hans Schneider, Olga Holtz

Publication date 1 June 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512607

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Matrix equations and identities (15A24) History of linear algebra (15-03)

Abstract: In this partly historical and partly research oriented note, we display a page of an unpublished mathematical diary of Helmut Wielandt's for 1951. There he gives a new proof of a theorem due to H. S. A. Potter on the matrix equation $AB=omegaBA$, which is related to the $q$-binomial theorem, and asks some further questions, which we answer. We also describe results by M. P. Drazin and others on this equation.

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