Normal forms for orthogonal similarity classes of skew-symmetric matrices

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2006.09.006MaRDI QIDQ876402zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kaiming Zhao, Dragomir Ž. Đoković, K. Rietsch

Publication date 18 April 2007

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0603245

zbMATH Keywords

normal formorthogonal groupsimilaritytridiagonal matricesskew-symmetric matricesbidiagonal matricescanonical form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21) Algebraic systems of matrices (15A30)

Abstract: Let F be an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from 2. We show that every nonsingular skew-symmetric n by n matrix X over F is orthogonally similar to a bidiagonal skew-symmetric matrix. In the singular case one has to allow some 4-diagonal blocks as well. If further the characteristic is 0, we construct the normal form for O_n(F)-similarity classes of skew-symmetric matrices. In this case the known normal forms (as presented in the well known book by Gantmacher) are quite different. Finally we study some related varieties of matrices. We prove that the variety of normalized nilpotent n by n bidiagonal matrices for n=2s+1 is irreducible of dimension s. As a consequence the skew-symmetric nilpotent bidiagonal n by n matrices are shown to form a variety of pure dimension s.

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