Potter, Wielandt, and Drazin on the matrix equation AB = ωBA: New answers to old questions

American Mathematical Monthly

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 655-667

  Holtz, Olga ^a   Mehrmann, Volker ^b,c,d,e,f,g   Schneider, Hans ^c,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d IBM   (Germany)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 7944228485     PISSN: 00029890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4145039     Document Type: Article

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