September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
16h 3m
English
As we learned in Chapter 5, the advantage of a diagonalizable linear operator lies in the simplicity of its description. Such an operator has a diagonal matrix representation, or, equivalently, there is an ordered basis for the underlying vector space consisting of eigenvectors of the operator. However, not every linear operator is diagonalizable, even if its characteristic polynomial splits. Example 3 of Section 5.2 describes such an operator.
It is the purpose of this chapter to consider alternative matrix representations for nondiagonalizable operators. These representations are called canonical ...
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