Diagonal Plus Tridiagonal Representatives for Symplectic Congruence Classes of Symmetric Matrices
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AbstractLet n = 2m be even and denote by Spn(F) the symplectic group of rank m over an infinite field F of characteristic different from 2. We show that any n × n symmetric matrix A is equivalent under symplectic congruence transformations to the direct sum of m × m matrices B and C, with B diagonal andC tridiagonal. Since the Spn(F)-module of symmetric n × n matrices over F is isomorphic to the adjoint module spn(F), we infer that any adjoint orbit of Spn(F) in spn(F) has a representative in the sum of 3m − 1 root spaces, which we explicitly determine.
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