陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「The Jordan normal form and the Euclidean algorithm」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

In one of my recent posts, I used the Jordan normal form for a matrix in order to justify a couple of arguments. As a student, I learned the derivation of this form twice: firstly (as an undergraduate) by using the minimal polynomial , and secondly (as a graduate) by using the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain . I found though that the former proof was too concrete and the latter proof too abstract, and so I never really got a good

Before we begin, though, let us recall what the Jordan normal form theorem is. For this post, I’ll take the perspective of abstract linear transformations rather than of concrete matrices. Let be a linear transformation on a finite dimensional complex vector space V, with no preferred coordinate system. We are interested in asking what possible “kinds” of linear transformations V can support (more technically, we want to classify the conjugacy classes of , the ring of linear

已知结果和反例

Jordan normal form theorem . Every linear transformation on a finite dimensional complex vector space V is similar to a direct sum of transformations, each of which is a right shift plus a constant.

(Of course, the same theorem also holds with left shifts instead of right shifts.)

证明或构造的主线

Recall that a linear transformation is nilpotent if we have for some positive integer m. For instance, every right shift operator is nilpotent, as is any direct sum of right shifts. In fact, these are essentially the only nilpotent transformations:

Nilpotent Jordan normal form theorem . Every nilpotent linear transformation on a finite dimensional vector space is similar to a direct sum of right shifts.

阅读时建议盯住的点

We will prove this theorem later, but for now let us see how we can quickly deduce the full Jordan normal form theorem from this special case. The idea here is, of course, to split up the minimal polynomial , but it turns out that we don’t actually need the minimal polynomial per se ; any polynomial that annihilates the transformation will do.

More precisely, let be a linear transformation on a finite-dimensional complex vector space V. Then the powers are all linear transformations on V. On the other hand, the space of all linear transformations on V is a finite-dimensional vector space. Thus there must be a non-trivial linear dependence between these powers. In other words, we have P(T) = 0 (or equivalently, ) for some polynomial P with complex coefficients.

值得单独记下的条目

• The right shift . Here, is a standard vector space, and the right shift is defined as , thus all elements are shifted right by one position. (For instance, the 1-dimensional right shift is just the zero operator.)
• The right shift plus a constant. Here we consider an operator , where is a right shift, I is the identity on V, and is a complex number.
• Direct sums . Given two linear transformations and , we can form their direct sum by the formula .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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