TY - JOUR T1 - A Note on Generic Fiedler Matrices AU - L. Q. Zhao JO - Numerical Mathematics, a Journal of Chinese Universities VL - 2 SP - 140 EP - 146 PY - 2007 DA - 2007/05 SN - 16 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/nm/8052.html KW - AB - In this paper, we first show that a generic $ m \times n $ Fiedler matrix may have $2^{m - n - 1} - 1$ kinds of factorizations which are very complicated when $m$ is much larger than $n$. In this work, two special cases are examined, one is an $m \times n$ Fiedler matrix being factored as a product of $( {m - n})$ Fiedler matrices, the other is an $m \times ( {m - 2} )$ Fiedler matrix's factorization. Then we discuss the relation among the numbers of parameters of three generic $ m \times n$, $n \times p $ and $ m \times p $ Fiedler matrices, and obtain some useful results.