Canonical forms for Hermitian matrix pairs under strict equivalence and congruence

SIAM Review

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 407-443

  Lancaster, Peter ^a   Rodman, Leiba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical forms; Congruence; Matrix pairs; Strict equivalence

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

CANONICAL FORMS; CONGRUENCE; MATRIX PAIRS; STRICT EQUIVALANCE;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 24644490536     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S003614450444556X     Document Type: Article

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