Jordan Normal Form via Elementary Transformations
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چکیده
This paper presents a method based on elementary transformations which may be applied to a matrix A, whose characteristic polynomial has been decomposed into linear factors, in order to obtain a nonsingular matrix P such that P-1AP is in Jordan normal form. This method can be used in the classroom, among other problems, to directly solve a linear ODE with constant coefficients. We also present a symbolic Maple program implementing the method.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- SIAM Review
دوره 40 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998