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Littlewood's algorithm and quaternion matrices

Representation Theory 2007-09-18 v1

Abstract

A strengthened form of Schur's triangularization theorem is given for quaternion matrices with real spectrum (for complex matrices it was given by Littlewood). Littlewood's algorithm for reducing a complex matrix to a canonical form under unitary similarity is extended to quaternion matrices whose eigenvalues have geometric multiplicity 1.

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@article{arxiv.0709.2466,
  title  = {Littlewood's algorithm and quaternion matrices},
  author = {Dennis I. Merino and Vladimir V. Sergeichuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2466},
  year   = {2007}
}

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20 pages

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