Jordan blocks

A form of Jordan block — A Jordan block over a ring R (whose identities are the zero 0 and one 1) is a matrix composed of 0 elements everywhere except for the diagonal, which is filled with a fixed element λ ∈ R, and the superdiagonal, which is composed of ones.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of Jordan block
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