Canonical matrices of bilinear and sesquilinear forms

Canonical matrices of bilinear and sesquilinear forms

Canonical matrices are given for • bilinear forms over an algebraically closed or real closed field; • sesquilinear forms over an algebraically closed field and over real quaternions with any nonidentity involution; and • sesquilinear forms over a field F of characteristic different from 2 with involution (possibly, the identity) up to classification of Hermitian forms over finite extensions of...

A regularization algorithm for matrices of bilinear and sesquilinear forms

Over a field or skew field F with an involution a 7→ ã (possibly the identity involution), each singular square matrix A is *congruent to a direct sum S∗AS = B ⊕ Jn1 ⊕ · · · ⊕ Jnp , 1 ≤ n1 ≤ · · · ≤ np, in which S is nonsingular and S∗ = S̃ ; B is nonsingular and is determined by A up to *congruence; and the ni-by-ni singular Jordan blocks Jni and their multiplicities are uniquely determined by ...

Roots and Canonical Forms for Circulant Matrices

A Primer on Sesquilinear Forms

The dot product is an important tool for calculations in Rn. For instance, we can use it to measure distance and angles. However, it doesn’t come from just the vector space structure on Rn – to define it implicitly involves a choice of basis. In Math 67, you may have studied inner products on real vector spaces and learned that this is the general context in which the dot product arises. Now, w...

Arens regularity of bilinear forms and unital Banach module spaces

Assume that $A$‎, ‎$B$ are Banach algebras and that $m:Atimes Brightarrow B$‎, ‎$m^prime:Atimes Arightarrow B$ are bounded bilinear mappings‎. ‎We study the relationships between Arens regularity of $m$‎, ‎$m^prime$ and the Banach algebras $A$‎, ‎$B$‎. ‎For a Banach $A‎$‎-bimodule $B$‎, ‎we show that $B$ factors with respect to $A$ if and only if $B^{**}$ is unital as an $A^{**}‎$‎-module‎. ‎Le...