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Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2018 Volume 472, Pages 92–97 (Mi znsl6642)

Pseudo-orthogonal eigenvalues of skew-symmetric matrices

Kh. D. Ikramov

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: The following result is attributed to J. Williamson: Every real, symmetric, and positive definite matrix $A$ of even order $n = 2m$ can be brought to diagonal form by congruence with a symplectic transformation matrix. The diagonal entries of this form are invariants of congruence transformations performed with $A$ and are called the symplectic eigenvalues of this matrix. In this short paper, we prove an analogous fact concerning (complex) skew-symmetric matrices and transformations belonging to a different group, namely, the group of pseudo-orthogonal matrices.

Key words and phrases: skew-symmetric matrix, pseudo-orthogonal matrix, congruence, similarity, bilinear metric space.

UDC: 512.643.8

Received: 01.03.2018



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