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A Decomposition Theorem for Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Martin H. Pearl
Martin H. Pearl*
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The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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According to a classical theorem originally proved by L. Autonne (1; 3) in 1915, every m × n matrix of rank r with entries from the complex field can be decomposed as

where U1 and U2 are unitary matrices of order m and n respectively and D is an m × n matrix having the form

1

where Δ is a non-singular diagonal matrix whose rank is r. If r = m, then the row of zero matrices of (1) does not actually appear. If r = n, then the column of zero matrices of (1) does not appear. The main purpose of this paper is to give a necessary and sufficient condition under which both U1 and U2 may be chosen to be real orthogonal matrices.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 19 , 1967 , pp. 344 - 349
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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