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When Does Rank(A+B)=Rank(A)+Rank(B)?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. Marsaglia and
G. P. H. Styan
G. Marsaglia
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
G. P. H. Styan
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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In a recent note in the Bulletin, Murphy [5] gave a short proof that for complex m×n matrices A and B, r(A+B)=r(A)+r(B) if the rows of A are orthogonal to the rows of B and the columns of A are orthogonal to the columns of B. His proof was elegant and simple, an improvement on an earlier proof of the same result by Meyer [4].

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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1972, pp. 451 - 452
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

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