Power partial isometry index and ascent of a finite matrix

Abstract: We give a complete characterization of nonnegative integers

j

and

k

and a positive integer

n

for which there is an

n

-by-

n

matrix with its power partial isometry index equal to

j

and its ascent equal to

k

. Recall that the power partial isometry index

p (A)

of a matrix

A

is the supremum, possibly infinity, of nonnegative integers

j

such that

I, A, A^{2}, l d o t s, A^{j}

are all partial isometries while the ascent

a (A)

of

A

is the smallest integer

k g e 0

for which

k e r A^{k}

equals

k e r A^{k + 1}

. It was known before that, for any matrix

A

, either

p (A) l e m i n a (A), n - 1

or

p (A) = i n f t y

. In this paper, we prove more precisely that there is an

n

-by-

n

matrix

A

such that

p (A) = j

and

a (A) = k

if and only if one of the following conditions holds: (a)

j = k l e n - 1

, (b)

j l e k - 1

and

j + k l e n - 1

, and (c)

j l e k - 2

and

j + k = n

. This answers a question we asked in a previous paper.

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