Pairs of matrices, one of which commutes with their commutator
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Let A, B be n × n complex matrices such that C = AB − BA and A commute. For n = 2, we prove that A, B are simultaneously triangularizable. For n ≥ 3, we give an example of matrices A, B such that the pair (A, B) does not have property L of Motzkin-Taussky, and such that B and C are not simultaneously triangularizable. Finally, we estimate the complexity of the Alp’in-Koreshkov’s algorithm that checks whether two matrices are simultaneously triangularizable. Practically, one cannot test a pair of numerical matrices of dimension greater than five.
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Let A, B be n × n complex matrices such that C = AB − BA and A commute. For n = 2, we prove that A, B are simultaneously triangularizable. For n ≥ 3, we give an example of matrices A, B such that the pair (A, B) does not have property L of Motzkin-Taussky, and such that B and C are not simultaneously triangularizable. Finally, we estimate the complexity of the Alp’in-Koreshkov’s algorithm that ...
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