2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/145770Tridiagonal canonical forms of square matrices under congruence or *congruence, pairs of symmetric or skew-symmetric matrices under congruence, and pairs of Hermitian matrices under *congruence are given over an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from 2.26 pages; Preprint RT-MAT 2006-16, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2006Representation Theory15A21, 15A57Tridiagonal canonical matrices of bilinear or sesquilinear forms and of pairs of symmetric, skew-symmetric, or Hermitian formstext