Reduction of a pair of skew-symmetric matrices to its canonical form under congruence

Victor A. Bovdi; Tatiana G. Gerasimova; Mohamed A. Salim; Vladimir V. Sergeichuk

doi:10.1016/j.laa.2017.12.013

Reduction of a pair of skew-symmetric matrices to its canonical form under congruence

Victor A. Bovdi, Tatiana G. Gerasimova, Mohamed A. Salim, Vladimir V. Sergeichuk

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Let (A,B) be a pair of skew-symmetric matrices over a field of characteristic not 2. Its regularization decomposition is a direct sum (A__,B__)⊕(A₁,B₁)⊕…⊕(A_t,B_t) that is congruent to (A,B), in which (A__,B__) is a pair of nonsingular matrices and (A₁,B₁),…,(A_t,B_t) are singular indecomposable canonical pairs of skew-symmetric matrices under congruence. We give an algorithm that constructs a regularization decomposition. We also give a constructive proof of the known canonical form of (A,B) under congruence over an algebraically closed field of characteristic not 2.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17-30
Number of pages	14
Journal	Linear Algebra and Its Applications
Volume	543
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2017.12.013
Publication status	Published - Apr 15 2018

Keywords

Canonical form
Pair of skew-symmetric matrices
Regularization decomposition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Algebra and Number Theory
Numerical Analysis
Geometry and Topology
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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