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Becker, H.G. On the transformation of a complex skew-symmetric matrix into a real normal form and its application to a direct proof of the Bloch-Messiah theorem. Lett. Nuovo Cimento 8, 185–188 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02906230
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