A square matrix is said to be diagonalizable if it is similar to a diagonal matrix. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the diagonalizability of matrices over a principal ideal domain.
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Translated from Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 283–288, February, 2012.
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Prokip, V.M. Diagonalizability of matrices over a principal ideal domain. Ukr Math J 64, 316–323 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-012-0649-6
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