Abstract
We find necessary and sufficient conditions for polynomials with matrix coefficients over an arbitrary field to be reducible via a similarity transformation to block triangular form with regular diagonal blocks of maximum degree.
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Translated fromMatematichni Metody i Fiziko-Mekhanichni Polya, Vol. 38, 1995.
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Shavarovs'kii, B.Z. Reduction of matrix polynomials to a special quasitriangular form. J Math Sci 81, 3013–3019 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02362585
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02362585