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An elementary proof of the Jordan-Kronecker theorem

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This paper presents a proof of the Jordan-Kronecker theorem on the reduction to canonical form of a pair of skew-symmetric bilinear forms on a finite-dimensional linear space over an algebraically closed field.

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Original Russian Text © I. K. Kozlov, 2013, published in Matematicheskie Zametki, 2013, Vol. 94, No. 6, pp. 857–870.

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Kozlov, I.K. An elementary proof of the Jordan-Kronecker theorem. Math Notes 94, 885–896 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434613110254

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