On the Drazin Index of an Anti-Triangular Block Matrix
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| author | Maciala, Faustino Mary, Xavier Araújo, C. Mendes Patrício, Pedro |
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| contents | The Drazin index is a fundamental invariant in the analysis of singular matrices and their generalized inverses. While sharp results are available for block triangular matrices, the corresponding theory for anti-triangular block matrices is less developed. In this paper, we study matrices of the form \[ M=\begin{bmatrix} A & B \\ C & 0 \end{bmatrix}, \] under algebraic constraints on the blocks.
Building on additive decompositions involving von Neumann inverses, we relate the Drazin index of $M$ to invariance properties of the index and minimal polynomial of expressions of the form $A^{2}A^{-}+I-AA^{-}$. This connection provides an effective mechanism to control the index of $M$ through suitable factorizations and associated block products.
As a consequence, we derive explicit lower and upper bounds for $i(M)$ in terms of $i(A)$ and $i(BC)$, and characterize situations in which these bounds are attained. Under additional annihilation or orthogonality conditions on the blocks, we obtain closed-form representations for the Drazin inverse of $M$. Applications to adjacency matrices of directed graphs illustrate the sharpness of the bounds and the applicability of the results to structured matrices arising in graph-theoretic settings. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Drazin Index of an Anti-Triangular Block Matrix Maciala, Faustino Mary, Xavier Araújo, C. Mendes Patrício, Pedro Combinatorics Rings and Algebras The Drazin index is a fundamental invariant in the analysis of singular matrices and their generalized inverses. While sharp results are available for block triangular matrices, the corresponding theory for anti-triangular block matrices is less developed. In this paper, we study matrices of the form \[ M=\begin{bmatrix} A & B \\ C & 0 \end{bmatrix}, \] under algebraic constraints on the blocks. Building on additive decompositions involving von Neumann inverses, we relate the Drazin index of $M$ to invariance properties of the index and minimal polynomial of expressions of the form $A^{2}A^{-}+I-AA^{-}$. This connection provides an effective mechanism to control the index of $M$ through suitable factorizations and associated block products. As a consequence, we derive explicit lower and upper bounds for $i(M)$ in terms of $i(A)$ and $i(BC)$, and characterize situations in which these bounds are attained. Under additional annihilation or orthogonality conditions on the blocks, we obtain closed-form representations for the Drazin inverse of $M$. Applications to adjacency matrices of directed graphs illustrate the sharpness of the bounds and the applicability of the results to structured matrices arising in graph-theoretic settings. |
| title | On the Drazin Index of an Anti-Triangular Block Matrix |
| topic | Combinatorics Rings and Algebras |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08137 |