Absolutely indecomposable symmetric matrices |
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Authors: | Hans A. Keller A.Herminia Ochsenius |
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Affiliation: | a Hochschule Technik+Architektur Luzern, CH-6048 Horw, Switzerland b Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 306, correo 22, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
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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 T∈Matn(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. |
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Keywords: | 15A33 12D15 |
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