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The aim of this paper is to study systematically invariant subspaces of finitedimensional nilpotent operators. Our main motivation comes from classifying the similarity orbit in thelattice of invariant subspaces of a given nilpotent operator. We give a detailed study of the Littlewood-Richardson similarity orbit. We show that none of the “natural” similarity relations is equivalent with the others.
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Li, W.S., Müller, V. Invariant subspaces of nilpotent operators and LR-sequences. Integr equ oper theory 34, 197–226 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01236472
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