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Simultaneous Unitary Invariants for Sets of Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Heydar Radjavi
Heydar Radjavi*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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It is our aim in this paper to give an elementary solution to the problem of simultaneous unitary equivalence of two finite sets of matrices, i.e., given two ordered sets {Aj } and {Bj } of n × n matrices, j = 1, 2, … , m, we wish to determine whether there exists a unitary matrix U such that Bj = U*AjU for all j. A special case of this problem is that of unitary equivalence of two arbitrary matrices.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 20 , 1968 , pp. 1012 - 1019
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

Footnotes

This paper is based on part of the work done under the supervision of Professor Gerhard K. Kalisch and supported by the National Science Foundation under grant G 14137.

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