Generalized inverses and a block-rank equation

  • Authors:
  • Néstor Thome;Yimin Wei

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, E-46071 Valencia, Spain;Department of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

  • Venue:
  • Applied Mathematics and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

For a square matrix A of index 1, the block-rank equation rank[A/C B/X] = rank(A) is studied. Geometrical conditions are given to characterize the solution of this equation. Further, all matrices B and C are described for the solution X = A#, where A# is the group inverse of A. In addition, we extend these results to reflexive generalized inverses. This contributes to a result recently obtained by Wei [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 17 (1996) 744] and it is a generalization of a result by Groß [Lin. Alg. Appl. 289 (1999) 127].