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Matrix/Staircase form by elementary manipulations/Fact

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Let be a field, and let denote an -matrix over .

Then there exist

elementary row operations, and a (new) numbering of the columns

and an such that, in the new matrix, the columns have the form

and

By further elementary row operations, and by swapping of columns, the matrix can be brought to the form

with

.