When Is a Linear Operator Diagonalizable?

DOI10.2307/2975287MaRDI QIDQ4373322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Abate

Publication date 5 January 1999

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2975287

zbMATH Keywords

diagonalizable matrixminimal polynomialreduction to diagonal form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Canonical forms, reductions, classification (15A21)

Review text

Using the minimal polynomial and Sturm's theorem, the author presents an explicit procedure to decide whether a given linear operator on a finite-dimensional real or complex vector space is diagonalizable.

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