RT Journal Article T1 A Geometric Description of the Sets of Palindromic and Alternating Matrix Pencils with Bounded Rank A1 TerĂ¡n Vergara, Fernando de AB The sets of n x n T-palindromic, T-antipalindromic, T-even, and T-odd matrix pencils with rank at most r < n are algebraic subsets of the set of n x n matrix pencils. In this paper, we determine their dimension and we prove that they are all irreducible. This is in contrast with the nonstructured case, since it is known that the set of n x matrix pencils with rank at most r< n is an algebraic set with r + 1 irreducible components. We also show that these sets of structured pencils with bounded rank are the closure of the congruence orbit of a certain structured pencil given in canonical form. This allows us to determine the generic canonical form of a structured n x n matrix pencil with rank at most r, for any of the previous structures. PB Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) SN 0895-4798 YR 2018 FD 2018-07-03 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/32489 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/32489 LA eng DS e-Archivo RD 1 sept. 2024