Flag of Subspaces
A nilpotent transformation L on Rn naturally determines a flag of subspaces
and a signature
The signature characterizes L up to an invertible linear transformation. Furthermore, it satisfies the inequalities
Conversely, any sequence of natural numbers satisfying these inequalities is the signature of a nilpotent transformation.
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