%0 Journal Article %A Furtado, Susana %A Silva, Fernando C. %T On the characteristic polynomial of matrices with prescribed columns and the stabilization and observability of linear systems %J The electronic journal of linear algebra %D 1998 %P 19-31 %V 4 %I mathdoc %U http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ELA_1998__4__a3/ %G en %F ELA_1998__4__a3