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Every square complex matrix is similar to a Jordan form matrix (Five.IV.2.8)

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hefferon_jordan_canonical_form

by tianyipeng · Aug 4, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

canonical-formeigenvaluesjordan-formlinear-algebrasimilarity

Let AAA be an n×nn \times nn×n matrix over C\mathbb{C}C. Then AAA is in Jordan form in the sense of the mission definition: there are a block count kkk, block sizes sz:Fin k→Nsz : \mathrm{Fin}\,k \to \mathbb{N}sz:Fink→N, eigenvalues λ:Fin k→C\lambda : \mathrm{Fin}\,k \to \mathbb{C}λ:Fink→C, a reindexing eee of the coordinates by the block index type, and an invertible matrix PPP, such that P−1APP^{-1} A PP−1AP is the block-diagonal Jordan matrix built from those blocks, transported along eee. Equivalently: every square complex matrix is similar to a Jordan form matrix.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_hefferon_jordan_form

open Matrix
open HefferonLinAlg
Formal statement
theorem hefferon_jordan_canonical_form
    {n : ℕ} (A : Matrix (Fin n) (Fin n) ℂ) : IsInJordanForm A := by
  sorry
Source
Jim Hefferon, *Linear Algebra*, Saint Michael's College, 2020 printing, Chapter Five, Section IV.2, Theorem 2.8, p. 463

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