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The expression of an infinite lower semi-matrix in terms of its idempotent and nilpotent elements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

H. W. Turnbull
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, London, E.C.4
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The importance of matric algebras in Function Theory and in Physics (Birtwistle—The new Quantum Mechanics; and Courant and Hilbert—Methoden der mathematischen Physik) has resulted in comprehensive works on finite matrices. Very little progress has, however, been made in the necessary algebras of infinite matrices.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1939

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