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In article <SMITH.92Aug25085922@minerva.harvard.edu> smith@minerva.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) writes:
>Does there exist (over the net) Fortran or C code for decomposing real
>skew symmetric matrices into canonical form?  I was a little surprised
>when I looked at EISPACK's and LAPACK's indexes and failed to find
>such an algorithm.
>
>Steven Smith

Here is what I have in my bibliography.  As you can see by the citations,
these are secondary sources that I have not read myself.

Pete Stewart

\begin{thebibliography}{1}

\bibitem{govl:89}
G.~H. Golub and C.~F. Van~Loan.
\newblock {\em Matrix Computations}.
\newblock Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2nd edition,
  1989.

\bibitem{paar:71}
M.~H.~C. Paardekooper.
\newblock An eigenvalue algorithm for skew symmetric matrices.
\newblock {\em Numerische Mathematik}, 17:189--202, 1971.
\newblock Cited in \cite{govl:89}.

\bibitem{vkvd:77}
J.~M. Van~Kats and H.~A. Van~der Vorst.
\newblock Automatic monitoring of {L}anczos schemes for symmetric or
  skew-symmetric generalized eigenvalue problems.
\newblock Technical Report TR 7, Academische Computer Centre, Utrecht, The
  Netherlands, 1977.
\newblock Cited in \cite{govl:89}.

\bibitem{wagr:78}
R.~C. Ward and L.~J. Gray.
\newblock Eigensystem computation for skew-symmetric and a class of symmetric
  matrices.
\newblock {\em {ACM} Transactions on Mathematical Software}, 4:278--285, 1978.
\newblock Cited in \cite{govl:89}.

\end{thebibliography}