On the Necessary and Sufficient Condition for a Set of Matrices to Commute and Some Further Linked Results
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Vol 2009
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pp. 1-24
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This paper investigates the necessary and sufficient condition for a set of (real or complex) matrices to commute. It is proved that the commutator[A,B]=0for two matricesAandBif and only if a vectorv(B)defined uniquely from the matrixBis in the null space of a well-structured matrix defined as the Kronecker sumA⊕(−A∗), which is always rank defective. This result is extendable directly to any countable set of commuting matrices. Complementary results are derived concerning the commutators of certain matrices with functions of matricesf(A)which extend the well-known sufficiency-type commuting result[A,f(A)]=0.
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