Periodic two-dimensional descriptor systems

In this note, we analyze the compatibility conditions of 2D descriptor systems with periodic coefficients and we derive a special coordinate system in which these conditions reduce to simple matrix commutativity conditions. We also show that the compatibility of the different trajectories in such a periodic 2D descriptor system can elegantly be formulated in terms of so-called matrix relations of regular pencils, which were introduced in [Benner and Byers. An arithmetic for matrix pencils: Theory and new algorithms. Numer. Math., 103(4):539-573, 2006]. We then show that these ideas can be extended to multidimensional periodic descriptor systems and briefly discuss the difference between the case of complex and real coefficient matrices.