Roth's solvability criteria for the matrix equations ${AX-\widehat XB=C}$ and ${X-A\widehat{X}B=C}$ over the skew field of quaternions with an involutive automorphism $q\mapsto \hat q$

Abstract

The matrix equation $AX-XB=C$ has a solution if and only if the matrices [A&C\\0&B] and [A &0\\0 & B] are similar. This criterion was proved over a field by W.E. Roth (1952) and over the skew field of quaternions by Huang Liping (1996). H.K. Wimmer (1988) obtained an analogous criterion for the matrix equation $X-AXB=C$ over a field. We extend these criteria to the matrix equations $AX-\widehat XB=C$ and $X-A\widehat XB=C$ over the skew field of quaternions with a fixed involutive automorphism $q\mapsto \hat q$.

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