Multiparameter perturbation theory of matrices and linear operators

Abstract

We show that a normal matrix $A$ with coefficient in $\mathbb C[[X]]$, $X=(X_1, \ldots, X_n)$, can be diagonalized, provided the discriminant $\Delta_A $ of its characteristic polynomial is a monomial times a unit. The proof is an adaptation of the algorithm of proof of Abhyankar-Jung Theorem. As a corollary we obtain the singular value decomposition for an arbitrary matrix $A$ with coefficient in $\mathbb C[[X]]$ under a similar assumption on $\Delta_{AA^*} $ and $\Delta_{A^*A} $. We also show real versions of these results, i.e. for coefficients in $\mathbb R[[X]]$, and deduce several results on multiparameter perturbation theory for normal matrices with real analytic, quasi-analytic, or Nash coefficients.