On the lengths of irreducible pairs of complex matrices
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Abstract:
The length of a pair of matrices is the smallest integer $l$ such that words in the matrices with at most $l$ factors span the unital algebra generated by the pair. Upper bounds for lengths have been much studied. If $B$ is a rank one $n\times n$ (complex) matrix, the length of the irreducible pair $\{A,B\}$ is $2n-2$ and the subwords of $A^{n-1}BA^{n-2}$ form a basis for $M_n(\mathbb {C})$. New examples are given of irreducible pairs of $n\times n$ matrices of length $n$. There exists an irreducible pair of $5\times 5$ matrices of length $4$. We begin the study of determining lower bounds for lengths.References
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Additional Information
- W. E. Longstaff
- Affiliation: School of Mathematics & Statistics, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
- Email: longstaf@maths.uwa.edu.au
- Peter Rosenthal
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4, Canada
- Email: rosent@math.toronto.edu
- Received by editor(s): March 1, 2010
- Published electronically: June 13, 2011
- Communicated by: Marius Junge
- © Copyright 2011
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 139 (2011), 3769-3777
- MSC (2010): Primary 15A30; Secondary 47L05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-11149-3
- MathSciNet review: 2823023