Document Type: Research Paper

Authors

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, PO. Code 14168-94351, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the reduced form of circulant matrices and we show that the problem of computing the q-th roots of a nonsingular circulant matrix A can be reduced to that of computing the q-th roots of two half size matrices B - C and B + C.

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