Hyperinvariant, characteristic and marked subspaces

Abstract

Let $V$ be a finite dimensional vector space over a field $K$ and $f$ a $K$-endomorphism of $V$. In this paper we study three types of $f$-invariant subspaces, namely hyperinvariant subspaces, which are invariant under all endomorphisms of $V$ that commute with $f$, characteristic subspaces, which remain fixed under all automorphisms of $V$ that commute with $f$, and marked subspaces, which have a Jordan basis (with respect to $f_{|X}$) that can be extended to a Jordan basis of $V$. We show that a subspace is hyperinvariant if and only if it is characteristic and marked. If $K$ has more than two elements then each characteristic subspace is hyperinvariant.

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