TY - GEN A1 - Byers, Ralph A1 - Mehrmann, Volker A1 - Xu, Hongguo T1 - A structured staircase algorithm for skew-symmetric/symmetric pencils N2 - We present structure preserving algorithms for the numerical com- putation of structured staircase forms of skew-symmetric/symmetric matrix pencils along with the Kronecker indices of the associated skew- symmetric/symmetric Kronecker-like canonical form. These methods allow deflation of the singular structure and deflation of infinite eigenvalues with index greater than one. Two algorithms are proposed: one for general skew-symmetric/symmetric pencils and one for pencils in 0 which the skew-symmetric matrix is a direct sum of 0 and J = −I I . 0 We show how to use the structured staircase form to solve boundary value problems arising in control applications and present numerical examples. Y1 - 2005 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-matheon/frontdoor/index/index/docId/247 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0296-matheon-2473 ER -