Let R be an arbitrary ring. In this paper, the following statements are proved: (a) Each idempotent matrix over R can be diagonalized if and only if each idempotent matrix over R has a characteristic vector. (b) An idempotent matrix over R can be diagonalized under a similarity transformation if and
Diagonalization of matrices over regular rings
โ Scribed by P. Ara; K.R. Goodearl; K.C. O'Meara; E. Pardo
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 725 KB
- Volume
- 265
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0024-3795
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โฆ Synopsis
Square matrices are shown to be diagonalizable over all known classes of (von Neumann) regular rings. This diagonalizability is equivalent to a cancellation property for finitely generated projective modules which conceivably holds over all regular rings. These results are proved in greater generality, namely for matrices and modules over exchange rings, where attention is restricted to regular matrices.
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