Perturbation analysis of singular subspaces and deflating subspaces

Summary. Perturbation expansions for singular subspaces of a matrix and for deflating subspaces of a regular matrix pair are derived by using a technique previously described by the author. The perturbation expansions are then used to derive Fr\'echet derivatives, condition numbers, and th-order perturbation bounds for the subspaces. Vaccaro's result on second-order perturbation expansions for a special class of singular subspaces can be obtained from a general result of this paper. Besides, new perturbation bounds for singular subspaces and deflating subspaces are derived by applying a general theorem on solution of a system of nonlinear equations. The results of this paper reveal an important fact: Each singular subspace and each deflating subspace have individual perturbation bounds and individual condition numbers. Received July 26, 1994