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A short constructive proof of Jordan's decomposition theorem

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Abstract

Although there are many simple proofs of Jordan's decomposition theorem in the literature (see [1], the references mentioned there, and [2]), our proof seems to be even more elementary. In fact, all we need is the theorem on the dimensions of rang and kernel and the existence of eigenvalues of a linear transformation on a nontrivial finite dimensional complex vector space.

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@article{arxiv.math/0312041,
  title  = {A short constructive proof of Jordan's decomposition theorem},
  author = {Pawel Kroeger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0312041},
  year   = {2007}
}

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2 pages, 3 added references

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