The companion matrix to a
monic polynomial
 |
(1)
|
is the
square
matrix
![A=[0 0 ... 0 -a_0; 1 0 ... 0 -a_1; 0 1 ... 0 -a_2; | | ... ... |; 0 0 ... 1 -a_(n-1)]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tgCADvMJqUNoxIHaqGoqjuNRevRuimVvLL6iQFgshCPPHwS6vyiusV9iNdk7QVBpaFKYfqboy8YHGR2LBl2U20IXl2IctRkU4BkDlIi0kl7V6Dyd12TEAoAdxm79S5tiRlAj0iKLQGP5xu9gay06SePZSL-z4=s0-d) |
(2)
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with ones on the
subdiagonal and the last column given by the coefficients of

. Note that
in the literature, the companion matrix is sometimes defined with the rows and columns
switched, i.e., the
transpose of the above matrix.
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