Jordan decomposition of bilinear forms

Bilinear Forms

The geometry of Rn is controlled algebraically by the dot product. We will abstract the dot product on Rn to a bilinear form on a vector space and study algebraic and geometric notions related to bilinear forms (especially the concept of orthogonality in all its manifestations: orthogonal vectors, orthogonal subspaces, and orthogonal bases). Section 1 defines a bilinear form on a vector space a...

Arens regularity of bilinear forms and unital Banach module spaces

Assume that $A$‎, ‎$B$ are Banach algebras and that $m:Atimes Brightarrow B$‎, ‎$m^prime:Atimes Arightarrow B$ are bounded bilinear mappings‎. ‎We study the relationships between Arens regularity of $m$‎, ‎$m^prime$ and the Banach algebras $A$‎, ‎$B$‎. ‎For a Banach $A‎$‎-bimodule $B$‎, ‎we show that $B$ factors with respect to $A$ if and only if $B^{**}$ is unital as an $A^{**}‎$‎-module‎. ‎Le...

Jordan Matrix Decomposition

We follow the rules: i, j, m, n, k denote natural numbers, K denotes a field, and a, λ denote elements of K. Let us consider K, λ, n. The Jordan block of λ and n yields a matrix over K and is defined by the conditions (Def. 1). (Def. 1)(i) len (the Jordan block of λ and n) = n, (ii) width (the Jordan block of λ and n) = n, and (iii) for all i, j such that 〈i, j〉 ∈ the indices of the Jordan bloc...

A note on bilinear forms

Lecture 4: Jordan Canonical Forms

This lecture introduces the Jordan canonical form of a matrix — we prove that every square matrix is equivalent to a (essentially) unique Jordan matrix and we give a method to derive the latter. We also introduce the notion of minimal polynomial and we point out how to obtain it from the Jordan canonical form. Finally, we make an encounter with companion matrices. 1 Jordan form and an applicati...