{ "id": "0709.2466", "version": "v1", "published": "2007-09-16T06:54:32.000Z", "updated": "2007-09-16T06:54:32.000Z", "title": "Littlewood's algorithm and quaternion matrices", "authors": [ "Dennis I. Merino", "Vladimir V. Sergeichuk" ], "comment": "20 pages", "journal": "Linear Algebra Appl. 298 (1999) 193--208", "doi": "10.1016/S0024-3795(99)00170-6", "categories": [ "math.RT" ], "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2007-09-16T06:54:32.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "15A21" ], "keywords": [ "quaternion matrices", "littlewoods algorithm", "schurs triangularization theorem", "unitary similarity", "real spectrum" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 20, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0709.2466M" } } }