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Simultaneous solutions of Sylvester equations and idempotent matrices separating the joint spectrum

✍ Scribed by Sang-Gu Lee; Quoc-Phong Vu


Book ID
104039226
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
228 KB
Volume
435
Category
Article
ISSN
0024-3795

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✦ Synopsis


We investigate simultaneous solutions of the matrix Sylvester

tuples of commuting matrices of order m × m and p × p, respectively. We show that the matrix Sylvester equations have a unique solution X for every compatible k-tuple of m × p matrices {C 1 , . . . , C k } if and only if the joint spectra σ (A 1 , . . . , A k ) and σ (B 1 , . . . , B k ) are disjoint. We discuss the connection between the simultaneous solutions of Sylvester equations and related questions about idempotent matrices separating disjoint subsets of the joint spectrum, spectral mapping for the differences of commuting k-tuples, and a characterization of the joint spectrum via simultaneous solutions of systems of linear equations.