The structure of alternating-Hamiltonian matrices

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2004.10.003MaRDI QIDQ1763845zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William C. Waterhouse

Publication date 22 February 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2004.10.003

zbMATH Keywords

alternating-Hamiltonian matrixHamiltonian matricesPairs of alternating formssimilarityskew-Hamiltonian matrixsymplectic transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The author proves that for over all fields, every alternating-Hamiltonian matrix is similar to a block-diagonal matrix of the form \(\begin{pmatrix} A & 0 \\ 0 & A^{T} \end{pmatrix}\) for some \(A\), and that any two alternating-Hamiltonian matrices are similar by a symplectic transformation. Furthermore, every alternating-Hamiltonian matrix is the square of a Hamiltonian matrix. The results are not true for all skew-Hamiltonian matrices in case where the field has characteristic 2, as can be easily seen by counterexamples given by the authors.

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• On the Product of Two Alternating Matrices
• Spectral doubling of normal operators and connections with antiunitary operators
• When is a Hamiltonian matrix the commutator of two skew-Hamiltonian matrices?
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• Existence of horizontal immersions in fat distributions
• The _S polar decomposition when S is skew-symmetric
• Jordan structures of alternating matrix polynomials

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