A finite set A of N x N nilpotent commutative matrices that have one-d
imensional joint kernel is considered. The theorem (due to Suprunenko
and Tyshkevich) that the algebra A generated by A and the identity mat
rix has dimension equal to N is proved. A canonical basis for A is giv
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