Two canonical forms for skew-symmetric matrix polynomials over arbitrary fields are characterized — the Smith form, and its skew-symmetric variant obtained via unimodular congruences. Applications include the analysis of the eigenvalue and elementary divisor structure of products of two skew-symmetric matrices, the derivation of a Smith-McMillan-like canonical form for skew-symmetric rational m...

It is well-known that a Sylvester Hadamard matrix can be described by means of a cocycle. In this paper it is shown that the additional internal structure in a Sylvester Hadamard matrix, provided by the cocycle, is su cient to guarantee some kind of reduction in the computational complexity of calculating its permanent using Ryser's formula. A Hadamard matrix H of order n is an n× n matrix with...

In this survey paper, a summary of results which are to be found in a series of papers, is presented. The subject of interest is focused on matrix algebraic properties of the Fisher information matrix (FIM) of stationary processes. The FIM is an ingredient of the Cramér-Rao inequality, and belongs to the basics of asymptotic estimation theory in mathematical statistics. The FIM is interconnecte...

Acknowledgements: During the research that led to the this paper, the first author was initially supported by the European Regional Development Fund through the programme  and by the PortugueseGovernment through the  (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) under the project -/// and through an  Ciência  fellowship, and later supported by an  Investigador a...

where X ∈ M(n,m)(K), play a central role in many areas of applied mathematics and in particular in systems and control theory. It is well known that if K is an algebraically closed field then the matrix equation (1) possesses a unique solution if and only if the matrices A and B have no common eigenvalues (see [[3]] and [11]). In this work we give a brief survey of methods used to solve the (SM...

This paper deals with the design of a reduced-order H∞ filter for a stochastic bilinear system with a prescribed H∞ norm criterion. The considered system is bilinear in control and with multiplicative noises in the dynamics and in the measurement equations. The problem is transformed into the search of a unique gain matrix by using Sylvester-like constraints. The approach is based on the resolu...

This paper is concerned with numerical solutions to general linear matrix equations including the wellknown Lyapunov matrix equation and Sylvester matrix equation as special cases. Gradient based iterative algorithm is proposed to approximate the exact solution. A necessary and sufficient condition guaranteeing the convergence of the algorithm is presented. A sufficient condition that is easy t...

Descriptor systems constitute an important class of systems of both theoretical and practical interests and have been attracting the attention of many researchers over recent decades. This dissertation is concerned with non-standard H2 and H∞ control for linear time-invariant descriptor systems. Within the descriptor framework, the contributions of this dissertation are threefold: i) review of ...