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It is natural to ask if we can improve on the triangular form. In order to do so, it is clearly necessary to find ‘better’ bases for the subspaces that appear as the direct summands (or primary components) in the Primary Decomposition Theorem. So let us take a closer look at nilpotent mappings.
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Blyth, T.S., Robertson, E.F. (2002). Reduction to Jordan Form. In: Further Linear Algebra. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0661-6_6
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