• Title of article

    Absolutely indecomposable symmetric matrices

  • Author/Authors

    Hans A. Keller، نويسنده , , A. Herminia Ochsenius، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    83
  • To page
    93
  • Abstract
    Let A be a symmetric matrix of size n×n with entries in some (commutative) field K. We study the possibility of decomposing A into two blocks by conjugation by an orthogonal matrix Tset membership, variantMatn(K). We say that A is absolutely indecomposable if it is indecomposable over every extension of the base field. If K is formally real then every symmetric matrix A diagonalizes orthogonally over the real closure of K. Assume that K is a not formally real and of level s. We prove that in Matn(K) there exist symmetric, absolutely indecomposable matrices iff n is congruent to 0, 1 or −1 modulo 2s.
  • Journal title
    Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
  • Serial Year
    2002
  • Journal title
    Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
  • Record number

    817107