A Minimality of the Rational Canonical Form

A Rational Canonical Form Algorithm

Rational Canonical Form

In mathematics, complete classification of structures, such as groups and rings, is often a primary goal. Linear transformations are no exception to this. Certain canonical forms exist to classify linear transformations, therefore creating a unique representative of linear transformations in the same similarity class. Diagonal representation is of course one of the simplest examples of a canoni...

Determining the order of minimal realization of descriptor systems without use of the Weierstrass canonical form

A common method to determine the order of minimal realization of a continuous linear time invariant descriptor system is to decompose it into slow and fast subsystems using the Weierstrass canonical form. The Weierstrass decomposition should be avoided because it is generally an ill-conditioned problem that requires many complex calculations especially for high-dimensional systems. The present ...

The Jordan Canonical Form

Let β1, . . . , βn be linearly independent vectors in a vector space. For all j with 0 ≤ j ≤ n and all vectors α1, . . . , αk, if β1, . . . , βn are in the span of β1, . . . , βj, α1, . . . , αk, then j + k ≥ n. The proof of the claim is by induction on k. For k = 0, the claim is obvious since β1, . . . , βn are linearly independent. Suppose the claim is true for k−1, and suppose that β1, . . ....

The Canonical Contact Form

The structure group and the involutive differential system that characterize the pseudo-group of contact transformations on a jet space are determined.