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- From: jcrw@fmg.bt.co.uk (Jeremy Wilson)
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- Subject: Re: Square root of a matrix
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.143227.10008@fmg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 14:32:27 GMT
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- Jeremy Wilson (jcrw@fmg.bt.co.uk) wrote:
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- : In fact every matrix with all its eigenvalues equal and non-zero can be written as a product of a scalar matrix and an upper unitriangular matrix.
- : It is easy to show by induction on the matrix size that the
- : unitriangular matrix has only one square root which is unitriangular
- : so we now seem to have enough using Jordan normal form to determine all
- : square roots, except those with zero eigenvalues. A matrix with all its
- : eigenvalues zero, however, cannot have a square root unless it is
- : the zero matrix, as far as I can see.
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- Sorry! Slight correction! only one unitriangular square root!!
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