International Mathematics Competition
for University Students
2015

IMC2015: Day 2, Problem 9

9. An $n \times n$ complex matrix $A$ is called \emph{t-normal} if $AA^t = A^t A$ where $A^t$ is the transpose of $A$. For each $n$, determine the maximum dimension of a linear space of complex $n \times n$ matrices consisting of t-normal matrices.

Proposed by Shachar Carmeli, Weizmann Institute of Science

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