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Efficiently solve the Sylvester equation $AX+XA = C$ where $X$ is skew-symmetric

Is there a way (more efficient than the standard vectorization) to solve the following Sylvester equation in the skew-symmetric matrix $X$ $$AX+XA = C$$ where the matrix $A$ is symmetric positive semidefinite, and the matrix $C$ is skew-symmetric? Does this fact about $X$ follow from the statement?

Background: the matrices $C$ and $X$ are really bivectors, but I'm not sure if going the way of geometric algebra is helpful here.

Gabi
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