Natural Sciences, Mathematics, 2026
The Jordan-Postnikov Normal Form of aReal Linear Operator
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Abstract
We give a direct proof of the following result: for anyreal linear operator there exists a basis in which it has a Jordan-Postnikov matrix. This matrix for a real linear operator is deter-mined uniquely up to the order of direct summands on the diago-nal.