Miniversal deformations of matrices under *congruence and reducing transformations

Abstract

Arnold (1971) [1] constructed a miniversal deformation of a square complex matrix under similarity; that is, a simple normal form to which not only a given square matrix A but all matrices B close to it can be reduced by similarity transformations that smoothly depend on the entries of B. We give miniversal deformations of matrices of sesquilinear forms; that is, of square complex matrices under *congruence, and construct an analytic reducing transformation to a miniversal deformation. Analogous results for matrices under congruence were obtained by Dmytryshyn, Futorny, and Sergeichuk (2012) [11].