Untriangular factorization of holomorpic symplectic matrices

Abstract

We prove that every holomorphic symplectic matrix can be factorized as a product of holomorphic unitriangular matrices with respect to the symplectic form $ \left[\begin{array}{ccc} 0 & L_n \\ -L_n & 0\end{array}\right]$ where $L$ is the $n \times n$ matrix with $1$ along the skew-diagonal. Also we prove that holomorphic unitriangular matrices with respect to this symplectic form are products of not more than $7$ holomorphic unitriangular matrices with respect to the standard symplectic form $\left[\begin{array}{ccc} 0 & I_n \\ -I_n & 0\end{array}\right]$, thus solving an open problem posed in \cite{HKS}. Combining these two results allows for estimates of the optimal number of factors in the factorization by holomorphic unitriangular matrices with respect to the standard symplectic form. The existence of that factorization was obtained earlier by Ivarsson-Kutzschebauch and Schott, however without any estimates. Another byproduct of our results is a new, much less technical and more elegant proof of this factorization.