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MJ Journal on Algebra and Its Applications
1 (1) (2016) 1-4
Website: www.math-journals.com/index.php/JAA
doi: 10.14419/jaa.v1i1.35
Research paper
Kronecker product with applications
Mehsin Jabel Atteya *
Al-Mustansiriyah University, College of Education, Department of Mathematics, IRAQ
*Corresponding author E-mail: mehsinatteya@yahoo.com
Abstract
The main purpose of this paper study the property of the Kronecker product related to the Kronecker’s Delta and determi-
nants of matrices .This product gives the possibility to obtain a commutativity of any pair of square matrices such as
Hankel matrices and strictly upper triangular matrices. Kronecker product works without the assumptions on the size of
composing matrices.
Keywords: Kronecker Products, Kronecker’s Delta, Square Matrices, Hankel Matrices, Strictly Upper Triangular Matrices, Commut a-
tive Matrices.
AMS Subject Classification: 15A09, 15A27, 15A69
1. Introduction
'On the History of the Kronecker Product' this title of the paper which wrote by Henderson, Pukelsheim, and Searle
[1].Apparently, the first documented work on Kronecker products was written by Johann Georg Zehfuss between 1858 and
1868. In fact, Zehfuss who found the determinant result of a two square matrices A and B with their dimension x and y
respectively |A ⊗ B| = |A|
y
|B|
x
, (*).In Berlin, Kronecker gave a series of lectures in the 1880’s, where he introduced the
result (*) to his students. Later, in the 1890’s, Hurwitz and St´ephanos developed the same determinant equality and other
results involving Kronecker products such as: (A ⊗ B) (C ⊗ D) = (AC) ⊗ (BD), In addition to that, Hurwitz used the
symbol × to denote the operation. Furthermore, St´ephanos derives the result that the eigenvalues of A⊗B are the products
of all eigenvalues of A with all eigenvalues of B. Rados is one of many writers work in this field in the late 1800’s who
also discovered property (*) independently. Rados even thought that he wrote the original paper on property (*) and claims
it for himself in his paper published in 1900, questioning Hensel’s contributing it to Kronecker. In spite of Rados’ claim,
the determinant result (*) continued to be associated with Kronecker. In the 1930’s, even the definition of the matrix oper a-
tion A⊗B was associated with Kronecker’s name. Today, we know the Kronecker product as “Kronecker” product and not
as “Zehfuss”, “Hurwitz”, “St´ephanos”, or “Rados” product. Huamin Zhang and Feng Ding [2] proved, if A ∈ F
m×n
and B ∈
F
p×q
, then one has P(A⊗B)P
ݍ= B ⊗ A. The Kronecker product has an important role in the linear matrix equation
theory. The solution of the Sylvester and the Sylvester-like equations is a hotspot research area. Recently, the innovational
and computationally efficient numerical algorithms based on the hierarchical identification principle for the generalized
Sylvester matrix equations [3,4] and coupled matrix equations [5, 6] were proposed by Ding and Chen. On the other hand,
the iterative algorithms for the extended Sylvester-conjugate matrix equations were discussed in [7], [8]. Other related work
is included in [9–11]. Charles F. Van Loan [12] point to the widening use of the Kronecker product in numerical linear al-
gebra. Amy N. Langville and William J.Stewart [13] proved the condition number: For all matrix norms, cond (A ⊗ B) =
cond(A) cond(B). Recently, Yong Sik Yun and Chul Kang [14] derived further properties and results of Kronecker prod-
ucts, vec-operator and commutation matrices. This paper will look at applications of the Kronecker's Delta, determinant
property with Kronecker product in a square matrix.