Nilpotents Leave No Trace -- A Matrix Mystery for Pandemic Times
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2021-01-25 v1
Abstract
Reopening a cold case, inspector Echelon, high-ranking in the Row Operations Center, is searching for a lost linear map, known to be nilpotent. When a partially decomposed matrix is unearthed, he reconstructs its reduced form, finding it singular. But were its roots nilpotent?
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@article{arxiv.2101.08866,
title = {Nilpotents Leave No Trace -- A Matrix Mystery for Pandemic Times},
author = {Eric L. Grinberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.08866},
year = {2021}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure