Conjecture on rank-two partial isometries being unitarily equivalent to complex symmetric matrices

About 17 years old · traced to

Let TT be a partial isometry on a 44-dimensional complex Hilbert space, and suppose that Rank⁡T=2\operatorname{Rank} T=2. A matrix TT is unitarily equivalent to a complex symmetric matrix if there is a unitary matrix UU such that U∗TUU^*TU is equal to its transpose. Rank-two partial-isometry conjecture. Every rank-two 4×44\times 4 partial isometry is unitarily equivalent to a complex symmetric matrix. The cases of rank 00, 11, 33, and 44 are known, while the rank-two case was unresolved in the source and supported there only by computational testing of 100,000100{,}000 random examples.

References

Primary source

James E. Tener, “Unitary equivalence to a complex symmetric matrix: an algorithm”, arXiv:0908.2201 (2009).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.