Canonical forms for families of anti-commuting diagonalizable linear operators

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2011.06.034zbMATH Open1232.15015arXiv1101.3961OpenAlexW1988595730MaRDI QIDQ648924FDOQ648924

Authors: Yalçın Kumbasar, Ayşe Hümeyra Bilge 

Publication date: 29 November 2011

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

Abstract: It is well known that a commuting family of diagonalizable linear operators on a finite dimensional vector space is simultaneously diagonalizable. In this paper, we consider a family A of anti-commuting (complex) linear operators on a finite dimensional vector space V. We prove that if the family is diagonalizable over the complex numbers, then V has an A-invariant direct sum decomposition into subspaces V_a such that the restriction of the family A to V_a is a representation of a Clifford algebra. Thus unlike the families of commuting diagonalizable operators, diagonalizable anti-commuting families cannot be simultaneously digonalized, but on each subspace, they can be put simultaneously to (non-unique) canonical forms. The construction of canonical forms for complex representations is straightforward, while for the real representations it follows from the results of [Bilge A.H., c{S}. Koc{c}ak, S. Uu{g}uz, Canonical Bases for real representations of Clifford algebras, Linear Algebra and its Applications 419 (2006) 417-439. 3].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3961

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zbMATH Keywords

simultaneous diagonalizationanti-commuting linear operatorsrepresentations of Clifford algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Linear transformations, semilinear transformations (15A04)

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