An Elementary Proof That Every Singular Matrix Is a Product of Idempotent Matrices

DOI10.2307/30037549zbMath1124.15006OpenAlexW4240135886MaRDI QIDQ5295571

João Araújo, James D. Mitchell

Publication date: 30 July 2007

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/3784

zbMATH Keywords

singular matricesidempotent matriceslinear mappingfinite product of idempotent linear mappings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear transformations, semilinear transformations (15A04) Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21)

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