We provide a set of maximal rank-deficient submatrices of a Kronecker product of two matrices A ⊗ B, and in particular the Kronecker product of Fourier matrices F = Fn1 ⊗ . . . ⊗ Fnk . We show how in the latter case, maximal rank-deficient submatrices can be constructedas tilings of rank-one blocks. Such tilings exist for any subgroup of a suitable Abelian group associated to the matrix F . The...

Article history: Received 4 April 2014 Accepted 20 November 2014 Available online 2 December 2014 Submitted by Y. Wei MSC: primary 15A18 secondary 15A69

LANGVILLE, AMY N. Preconditioning for Stochastic Automata Networks. (Under the direction of William J. Stewart.) Many very large Markov chains can be modeled efficiently as Stochastic Automata Networks (SANs). A SAN is composed of individual automata that, for the most part, act independently, requiring only infrequent interaction. SANs represent the generator matrix Q of the underlying Markov ...

We saw in Lecture 3 how to efficiently multiply integers, and, using Kronecker substitution, how to efficiently multiply polynomials with integer coefficients. This gives us what we need to multiply elements in finite fields, provided that we have a way to reduce the result to our standard representations of Fp ' Z/pZ and Fq ' Fp[x]/(f), using integers in [0, p− 1] and polynomials of degree les...

We give several new algorithms for dense polynomial multiplication based on the Kronecker substitution method. For moderately sized input polynomials, the new algorithms improve on the performance of the standard Kronecker substitution by a sizeable constant, both in theory and in empirical tests.

Translated into the language of representations of quivers, a challenge in matrix pencil theory is to find sufficient and necessary conditions for a Kronecker representation to be a subfactor of another Kronecker representation in terms of their Kronecker invariants. The problem is reduced to a numerical criterion for a Kronecker representation to be a subrepresentation of another Kronecker rep...