The Cartan matrix of a finite dimensional algebra A is an important combinatorial invariant reflecting frequently structural properties of the algebra and its module category. For example, one of the important features of the modular representation theory of finite groups is the nonsingularity of Cartan matrices of the associated group algebras (Brauer’s theorem). Recently, the class of all tame selfinjective algebras having simply connected Galois coverings and the stable Auslander-Reiten quiver...

We prove that any quaternionic matrix of order n ≤3 admits a characteristic function, whose roots are the left eigenvalues, that satisfes Cayley-Hamilton theorem.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 15A15, 15A24, 15A33, 16S50.For an n×n matrix A over an arbitrary unitary ring R, we obtain the following Cayley-Hamilton identity with right matrix coefficients: (λ0I+C0)+A(λ1I+C1)+… +An-1(λn-1I+Cn-1)+An (n!I+Cn) = 0, where λ0+λ1x+…+λn-1 xn-1+n!xn is the right characteristic polynomial of A in R[x], I ∈ Mn(R) is the identity matrix and the entries of the n×n matrices Ci, 0 ≤ i ≤ n are in [R,R]. If R is commutative, then C0 = C1 = … = Cn-1 = Cn = 0 and our...

A matrix $A\in M_n\left(R\right)$ is $e$-clean provided there exists an idempotent $E\in M_n\left(R\right)$ such that $A-E\in {\mathrm{GL}}_n\left(R\right)$ and $detE=e$. We get a general criterion of $e$-cleanness for the matrix $\left[[a_1,a_2,\cdots ,a_{n+1}]\right]$. Under the $n$-stable range condition, it is shown that $\left[[a_1,a_2,\cdots ,a_{n+1}]\right]$ is $0$-clean iff $(a_1,a_2,\cdots ,a_{n+1})=1$. As an application, we prove that the $0$-cleanness and unit-regularity for such $n\times n$ matrix over a Dedekind domain coincide for all $n\ge 3$. The analogous for $(s,2)$ property is also obtained.

Drew, Johnson and Loewy conjectured that for n ≥ 4, the CP-rank of every n × n completely positive real matrix is at most [n2/4]. In this paper, we prove this conjecture for n × n completely positive matrices over Boolean algebras (finite or infinite). In addition,we formulate various CP-rank inequalities of completely positive matrices over special semirings using semiring homomorphisms.

We address the numerically reliable computation of generalized inverses of rational matrices in descriptor state-space representation. We put particular emphasis on two classes of inverses: the weak generalized inverse and the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse. By combining the underlying computational techniques, other types of inverses of rational matrices can be computed as well. The main computational ingredient to determine generalized inverses is the orthogonal reduction of the system matrix pencil...

In this survey paper, we present (mainly without proof) a number of results on conjugacy and factorization in general linear groups over fields and commutative rings. We also present the additive analogue in matrix rings of some of these results. The first section deals with the question of expressing elements in the commutator subgroup of the general linear group over a field as (simple) commutators. In Section 2, the same kind of problem is discussed for the general linear group over a commutative...

L. Huang [Consimilarity of quaternion matrices and complex matrices, Linear Algebra Appl. 331 (2001) 21–30] gave a canonical form of a quaternion matrix with respect to consimilarity transformations A ↦ ˜S−1AS in which S is a nonsingular quaternion matrix and h = a + bi + cj + dk ↦ ˜h := a − bi + cj − dk (a, b, c, d ∈ ℝ). We give an analogous canonical form of a quaternion matrix with respect to consimilarity transformations A ↦^S−1AS in which h ↦ ^h is an arbitrary involutive automorphism of the...