The solution of the Loewy-Radwan conjecture

DOI10.1080/03081087.2023.2277207arXiv2209.09416MaRDI QIDQ6411299FDOQ6411299

Authors: M. Omladič, Klemen Šivic 

Publication date: 19 September 2022

Abstract: A seminal result of Gerstenhaber gives the maximal dimension of a linear space of nilpotent matrices. It also exhibits the structure of this space where the maximal dimension is attained. Extensions of this result in the direction of linear spaces of matrices with a bounded number of eigenvalues have been studied. In this paper, we answer perhaps the most general problem of the kind as proposed by Loewy and Radwan by solving their conjecture in the positive. We give the dimension of a maximal linear space of $nimesn$ matrices with no more than $k<n$ eigenvalues. We also exhibit the structure of the space where this dimension is attained.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Algebraic systems of matrices (15A30) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

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