JournalszaaVol. 13, No. 1pp. 137–153

Extending Chains of Factorizations and Minimal Negative Signatures

  • Tiberiu Constantinescu

    University of Texas at Dallas, United States

  • Aurelian Gheondea

    Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
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Abstract

We compute the minimal negative signature for a problem of extending chains of factorizations in spaces with indefinite inner product spaces. As an application, we obtain a formula for the minimal negative signature of Hermitian completions of tridiagonal partial block matrices.

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Tiberiu Constantinescu, Aurelian Gheondea, Extending Chains of Factorizations and Minimal Negative Signatures. Z. Anal. Anwend. 13 (1994), no. 1, pp. 137–153

DOI 10.4171/ZAA/520