The RCH Method for Computing Minimal Polynomials of Polynomial Matrices

In this paper,a randomized Cayley-Hamilton theorem based method(abbreviated by RCH method) for computing the minimal polynomial of a polynomial matrix is presented.It determines the coefficient polynomials term by term from lower to higher degree.By using a random vector and randomly shifting,it requires no condition on the input matrix and works with probability one.In the case that coefficients of entries of the given polynomial matrix are all integers and that the algorithm is performed in exact computation,by using the modular technique,a parallelized version of the RCH method is also given.Comparisons with other algorithms in both theoretical complexity analysis and computational tests are given to show its effectiveness.