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A reduction for the matrix equation AB = εBA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. P. Drazin
M. P. Drazin
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Trinity CollegeCambridge
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1. It is well known that, if two n × n matrices A, B commute, then there is a non-singular matrix P such that P−1AP, P−2BP are both triangular (i.e. have all their subdiagonal elements zero). This result has been generalized, and, in particular, has been shown to hold even if the commutator K = AB − BA is not zero, provided that K is properly nilpotent in the polynomial ring generated by A, B.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1951 , pp. 7 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

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* The condition of Lemma 2 is, in fact, also sufficient; cf. Wilson, R., ‘The equation px = xq in linear associative algebra’, Proc. London Math. Soc. (2), 30 (1930), 359–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar