Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5773318 Linear Algebra and its Applications 2017 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
Fillmore Theorem says that if A is a nonscalar matrix of order n over a field F and γ1,…,γn∈F are such that γ1+⋯+γn=trA, then there is a matrix B similar to A with diagonal (γ1,…,γn). Fillmore's proof works by induction on the size of A and implicitly provides an algorithm to construct B. We develop an explicit and extremely simple algorithm that finish in two steps (two similarities), and with its help we extend Fillmore Theorem to integers (if A is integer then we can require B to be integer).
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory
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