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TauCeti.LinearAlgebra.JordanChevalley.Commuting

Jordan decomposition of commuting products #

The multiplicative Jordan decomposition respects products of commuting linear automorphisms. More precisely, if g and h commute, then every Jordan factor of g commutes with every Jordan factor of h, and the semisimple and unipotent parts of g * h are the products of the corresponding parts.

The key input is that the semisimple part is a polynomial in the original automorphism. The cross-commutation statements then reduce the product formula to uniqueness of the multiplicative Jordan decomposition.

This supplies a structural compatibility for the Jordan decomposition in Layer 4 of the ReductiveGroups roadmap.

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The semisimple factor of an automorphism commutes with every endomorphism that commutes with the original automorphism.

The unipotent factor of an automorphism commutes with every endomorphism that commutes with the original automorphism.

The semisimple factor of an automorphism commutes with every automorphism that commutes with the original automorphism.

The unipotent factor of an automorphism commutes with every automorphism that commutes with the original automorphism.

The semisimple parts of two commuting linear automorphisms commute.

The semisimple part of the first of two commuting automorphisms commutes with the unipotent part of the second.

The unipotent part of the first of two commuting automorphisms commutes with the semisimple part of the second.

The unipotent parts of two commuting linear automorphisms commute.

The Jordan decomposition of a product of commuting linear automorphisms is the componentwise product of their Jordan decompositions.

The semisimple part of a product of commuting automorphisms is the product of their semisimple parts.

The unipotent part of a product of commuting automorphisms is the product of their unipotent parts.