Following Arnold's techniques, we obtain a local canonical form of a h
olomorphic family of pairs of matrices (A(lambda), B(lambda)) acted on
by the state feedback group. We obtain an explicit formula to compute
the dimension of the base space of any miniversal deformation of (A(0
), B(0)). We make some applications to local perturbations of a pair o
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