The famous primary and cyclic decomposition theorems along with the tightly related rational and Jordan canonical forms are extended to linear spaces of infinite dimensions with counterexamples showing the scope of extensions.

In fact, if X is any vector space on which the primitive Banach algebra A acts faithfully and irreducibly, then X can be converted in a Banach space in such a way that the requirements in Theorem 0 are satisfied and even the inclusion A9BL(X ) is contractive. Roughly speaking, the aim of this paper is to prove the appropriate Jordan variant of Theorem 0. The notion of primitiveness for Jordan a...

BACKGROUND As the socioeconomic conditions in Jordan have improved over recent decades the disease and economic burden of Hepatitis A has increased. The purpose of this study is to assess the potential health and economic impact of a two-dose hepatitis A vaccine program covering one-year old children in Jordan. METHODS We adapted an age-structured population model of hepatitis A transmission ...

Given an affine subspace of square matrices, we consider the problem of minimizing the spectral abscissa (the largest real part of an eigenvalue). We give an example whose optimal solution has Jordan form consisting of a single Jordan block, and we show, using nonlipschitz variational analysis, that this behaviour persists under arbitrary small perturbations to the example. Thus although matric...

Background: In Jordan, there are high rates of breast cancer (BC). It is increasing at a rate of 4% per year. BC is the most common of all cancers in Jordan and is the leading cause of cancer deaths among Jordanian women. Objective: The purpose of this qualitative pilot study was to explore beliefs about participating in breast cancer screening (BCS) among women in Jordan and to identify cultur...

Let A be an algebra and let X be an A-bimodule. A C−linear mapping d : A → X is called a generalized Jordan derivation if there exists a Jordan derivation (in the usual sense) δ : A → X such that d(a) = ad(a) + δ(a)a for all a ∈ A. The main purpose of this paper to prove the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability and superstability of the generalized Jordan derivations.

is the geometric multiplicity of λk which is also the number of Jordan blocks corresponding to λk . • The orders of the Jordan Blocks of λk must sum to the algebraic multiplicity of λk . • The number of Jordan blocks corresponding to an eigenvalue λk is its geometric multiplicity. • The matrix A is diagonalizable if and only if, for any eigenvalue λ of A , its geometric and algebraic multiplici...

An investigation is made of the Eigenstructure of a class of lower triangular moment matrices which arose in the context of finding the forced response of IIR filters to typical excitations. It is found that the Jordan matrix can have at most two types of Jordan blocks. The modal matrix is shown to have a peculiar structure where the progenitors in the column partitions corresponding to the Jor...

A positive map between Euclidean Jordan algebras is a (symmetric cone) order preserving linear map. We show that the norm of such a map is attained at the unit element, thus obtaining an analog of the operator/matrix theoretic Russo-Dye theorem. A doubly stochastic map between Euclidean Jordan algebras is a positive, unital, and trace preserving map. We relate such maps to Jordan algebra automo...

The relationship between the Jordan forms of the matrix products AB and BA for some given A and B was first described by Harley Flanders in 1951. Their non-zero eigenvalues and non-singular Jordan structures are the same, but their singular Jordan block sizes can differ by 1. We present an elementary proof that owes its simplicity to a novel use of the Weyr characteristic.