Every 2n-by-2n complex matrix is a sum of three symplectic matrices

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2016.12.016MaRDI QIDQ503427zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralph John de la Cruz, Dennis I. Merino, Agnes T. Paras

Publication date 12 January 2017

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2016.12.016

zbMATH Keywords

skew Hamiltonian matricessymplectic matricessymplectic polar decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Factorization of matrices (15A23)

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