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Unitary Tridiagonalisation in M(4, C)

Rings and Algebras 2007-05-23 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

A question of interest in Linear Algebra is whether all n x n complex matrices can be unitarily tridiagonalised. The answer for all n not equal to 4 (affirmative or negative) has been known for a while, whereas the case n=4 seems to have remained open. In this paper, we settle the n=4 case in the affirmative. Some machinery from complex algebraic geometry needs to be used.

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@article{arxiv.math/0109051,
  title  = {Unitary Tridiagonalisation in M(4, C)},
  author = {Vishwambhar Pati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0109051},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages