The Bernstein-Sato b-Function of the Space of Cyclic Pairs

Robin Walters

We compute the Bernstein-Sato polynomial of $f$, a function which given a pair $(M,v)$ in $X=M_n(\mathbf{C})\times {\mathbf{C}}^n$ tests whether $v$ is a cyclic vector for $M$. Th…