We study the perturbation theory of structured matrices under structured
rank one perturbations, with emphasis on matrices that are unitary, orthogonal, or symplectic
with respect to an indefinite inner product. The rank one perturbations are not necessarily of
arbitrary small size (in the sense of norm).
In the case of sesquilinear forms, results on selfadjoint matrices can be applied to
unitary matrices by using the Cayley transformation, but
in the case of real or complex symmetric or skew-symmetric bilinear forms
additional considerations are necessary. For complex symplectic matrices, it turns out that
generically (with respect to the perturbations) the behavior of the Jordan form of the
perturbed matrix follows the pattern established earlier for unstructured matrices and their unstructured perturbations, provided the specific properties of the Jordan
form of complex symplectic matrices are accounted for. For instance,
the number of Jordan blocks of fixed odd size corresponding to the eigenvalue $1$ or $-1$ have to be even.
For complex orthogonal matrices, it is shown that the behavior of
the Jordan structures corresponding to the original eigenvalues that are not moved by
perturbations follows again the pattern established earlier for unstructured matrices,
taking into account the specifics of Jordan forms of complex orthogonal
matrices.
The proofs are based on general results developed in the paper concerning Jordan forms of
structured matrices (which include in particular the classes of orthogonal and symplectic matrices)
under structured rank one perturbations. These results are presented and proved in the framework of
real as well as of complex matrices.
This paper deals with the effect of generic but structured low rank perturbations on the Jordan structure and sign
characteristic of matrices that have structure in an indefinite inner product space.
The paper is a follow-up of earlier papers in which the effect of rank one perturbations
was considered. Several results that are in contrast to the case of unstructured low rank
perturbations of general matrices are presented here.