language: en

TR-1923 September 1987

Invariant Subspaces and Capital Punishment (A Participatory Paper)

G. W. Stewart

abstract The notion of invariant subspaces is useful in a number of theoretical and practical applications. In this paper we give an elementary treatment of invariant subspaces that stresses their connection with simple eigenvalues and their eigenvectors.

Department of Computer Science and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742.