Computing diagonal form and Jacobson normal form of a matrix using Gröbner bases

Abstract

In this paper we present two algorithms for the computation of a diagonal form of a matrix over non-commutative Euclidean domain over a field with the help of Gröbner bases. This can be viewed as the pre-processing for the computation of Jacobson normal form and also used for the computation of Smith normal form in the commutative case. We propose a general framework for handling, among other, operator algebras with rational coefficients. We employ special "polynomial" strategy in Ore localizations of non-commutative $G$-algebras and show its merits. In particular, for a given matrix $M$ we provide an algorithm to compute $U,V$ and $D$ with fraction-free entries such that $UMV=D$ holds. The polynomial approach allows one to obtain more precise information, than the rational one e. g. about singularities of the system. Our implementation of polynomial strategy shows very impressive performance, compared with methods, which directly use fractions. In particular, we experience quite moderate swell of coefficients and obtain uncomplicated transformation matrices. This shows that this method is well suitable for solving nontrivial practical problems. We present an implementation of algorithms in SINGULAR:PLURAL and compare it with other available systems. We leave questions on the algorithmic complexity of this algorithm open, but we stress the practical applicability of the proposed method to a bigger class of non-commutative algebras.