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On the similarity of AB and BA for normal and other matrices

Stephan Ramon Garcia, David Sherman, Gary Weiss

Published 2016-05-14Version 1

It is well-known that AB and BA are similar when A and B are complex square Hermitian matrices. In this note we answer a question of F. Zhang by demonstrating that similarity can fail if A is Hermitian and B is normal. Perhaps surprisingly, similarity does hold when A is positive semidefinite and B is normal.

Comments: 6 pages
Categories: math.FA
Subjects: 15A03, 15A18
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