Unitary equivalence of a matrix to its transpose

Stephan Ramon Garcia; James E. Tener

Unitary equivalence of a matrix to its transpose

Stephan Ramon Garcia^*, James E. Tener

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Motivated by a problem of Halmos, we obtain a canonical decomposition for complex matrices which are unitarily equivalent to their transpose (UET). Surprisingly, the naïve assertion that a matrix is UET if and only if it is unitarily equivalent to a complex symmetric matrix holds for matrices 7 × 7 and smaller, but fails for matrices 8 × 8 and larger.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	179-203
Number of pages	25
Journal	Journal of Operator Theory
Volume	68
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Unitary equivalence of a matrix to its transpose

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