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We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the nilpotent operators to be similiar to irreducible operators, and give an answer to D. A. Herrero Conjectures for nilpotent operators.
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Jiang, C., Guo, X. & Yang, Y. Nilpotent operators similar to irreducible operators. Sci. China Ser. A-Math. 44, 1544–1557 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02880794
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