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Chapter 11: Unitary Triangularization and Block Diagonalization

Chapter 11: Unitary Triangularization and Block Diagonalization

pp. 221-238

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, Pomona College, California, , University of Utah
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Chapter 11: Many facts about matrices can be revealed (or questions about them answered) by performing a suitable transformation that puts them into a special form. Such a form typically contains many zero entries in strategic locations. In this chapter, we show that every square complex matrix is unitarily similar to an upper triangular matrix. This is a powerful result with a host of important consequences.

Keywords

  • Upper triangularization
  • Cayley–Hamilton theorem
  • minimal polynomial
  • companion matrix
  • block diagonalization
  • simultaneous upper triangularization

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