scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1329661

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Authors Paul M. Cohn

Publication date 14 December 2000

zbMATH Keywords

eliminationsingular eigenvaluesvaluated skew fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantifier elimination, model completeness, and related topics (03C10) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Algebraic systems of matrices (15A30) Infinite-dimensional and general division rings (16K40)

Review text

The main theorem of elimination theory is a basic result of algebraic geometry which asserts that projective spaces are complete. It is classically proved by using resultants of polynomials. This survey paper discusses the difficulties which arise when one tries to obtain a similar result for skew fields, where closed sets are given as sets of singularities of matrices. The problem of finding singular eigenvalues of a square matrix over a skew field arises as a special case. The author proves that a matrix over a complete valuated skew field has a singular eigenvalue when the matrix has entries in the valuation ring and its residue-class matrix has \(0\) as a simple eigenvalue. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0910.00039].

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