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Power Partial Isometry Index and Ascent of a Finite Matrix
We give a complete characterization of nonnegative integers and and a
positive integer for which there is an -by- matrix with its power
partial isometry index equal to and its ascent equal to . Recall that
the power partial isometry index of a matrix is the supremum,
possibly infinity, of nonnegative integers such that are all partial isometries while the ascent of is the smallest
integer for which equals . It was known
before that, for any matrix , either or
. In this paper, we prove more precisely that there is an
-by- matrix such that and if and only if one of the
following conditions holds: (a) , (b) and ,
and (c) and . This answers a question we asked in a previous
paper.Comment: 11 page
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