On the Jordan--Chevalley decomposition of a matrix
Rings and Algebras
2022-05-19 v2
Abstract
The purpose of this note is to advertise an elegant algorithmic proof for the Jordan--Chevalley decomposition of a matrix, following and (slightly) revising the discussion of Couty, Esterle und Zarouf (2011). The basic idea of that method goes back to Chevalley (1951).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2205.05432,
title = {On the Jordan--Chevalley decomposition of a matrix},
author = {Meinolf Geck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05432},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
6 pages; minor corrections