Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
It is known that an induced matrix of an induced matrix is expressible as the direct sum of invariant matrices, or more generally that an invariant matrix of an invariant matrix can be expressed as a direct sum of invariant matrices. The spurs of the irreducible invariant matrices of a given matrix A = [ast], are the S-iunctions of the latent roots of A.
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