Timeline for a question about the Jordan form
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| Oct 22, 2012 at 3:26 | vote | accept | Hinn | ||
| Oct 21, 2012 at 18:47 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | I am sorry, but I do not understand your expression "A is inverse". What does this mean? If A consists of Jordan blocks J_1, J_2,... then $A^2$ consists of the Jordan blocks $J_1^2,J_2^2,...$. Is not this evident? | |
| Oct 21, 2012 at 15:32 | comment | added | Hinn | Thanks,but you say"squaring the whole matrix is equivalent to squaring all its Jordan blocks. " the words make sense only if A is inverse.But in this case,A is not inverse. So you can not use the conclusion? | |
| Oct 21, 2012 at 14:39 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |