A geometric approach to invariant subspaces of orthogonal matrices
Buser, Peter
1982

Abstract

This note gives a short, geometrically based, proof that a real orthogonal matrix has a normal form consisting of a direct sum of 1$times 1$ and 2$times 2$ blocks.

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Title A geometric approach to invariant subspaces of orthogonal matrices
Author(s) Buser, Peter
Published in American Mathematical Monthly
Volume 89
Issue 10
Pages 751
Date 1982
DOI https://doi.org/10.2307/2975837
Laboratories GEOM-FERM
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