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arXiv · 2509.19355

Row completion of polynomial and rational matrices II

Abstract

We study the row completion problem of polynomial and rational matrices with partial prescription of the structural data. The prescription of the complete structural data has been solved in Amparan et al., Lin. Alg. Appl. 720 (2025) 109-138, where several results of prescription of some of the four types of invariants composing the structural data have also been obtained. In this paper we deal with the cases not analyzed there. More precisely, we solve the row completion problem of a rational or a polynomial matrix when we prescribe the infinite (finite) structure and the column and/or the row minimal indices, and when only the column and/or row minimal indices are prescribed. The necessity of the conditions obtained are valid over arbitrary fields, but in some cases the proof of the sufficiency requires working over algebraically closed fields. By transposition the results obtained hold for the corresponding column completion problems.

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Agurtzane Amparan, Itziar Baragaña, Silvia Marcaida, Alicia Roca. 2025-09-18. Row completion of polynomial and rational matrices II. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19355

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