Author(s)

Heguo Liu¹, Honglian Zhang²

¹School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.
²Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.

The rational canonical form theorem is very essential basic result of matrix theory, which has been proved by different methods in the literature. In this note, we provide an effcient direct proof, from which the minimality for the decomposition of the rational canonical form can be found.

Minimal Polynomial, Rational Canonical Form, Cyclic Subspace

Liu, H. and Zhang, H. (2019) A Minimality of the Rational Canonical Form. Advances in Linear Algebra & Matrix Theory, 9, 83-88. doi: 10.4236/alamt.2019.94006.