Decompositions of Matrices Into a Sum of Torsion Matrices and Matrices of Fixed Nilpotence

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2023.07.005MaRDI QIDQ6508441arXivFDO

Authors Peter Danchev, E. Garcia, Miguel Gómez Lozano

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Matrix equations and identities (15A24) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Special matrices (15B99)

Abstract: For $nge2$ and fixed $kge1$, we study when a square matrix $A$ over an arbitrary field $mathbbF$ can be decomposed as $T+N$ where $T$ is a torsion matrix and $N$ is a nilpotent matrix with $N^k=0$. For fields of prime characteristic, we show that this decomposition holds as soon as the characteristic polynomial of $Ainmathbb{M}_n(mathbbF)$ is algebraic over its base field and the rank of $A$ is at least $fracnk$, and we present several examples that show that the decomposition does not hold in general. Furthermore, we completely solve this decomposition problem for $k=2$ and nilpotent matrices over arbitrary fields (even over division rings). This somewhat continues our recent publications in Lin. & Multilin. Algebra (2023) and Internat. J. Algebra & Computat. (2022) as well as it strengthens results due to Calugareanu-Lam in J. Algebra & Appl. (2016).

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