A characterization of $(\mathcal{I}, \mathcal{J})$-regular matrices

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{I},\mathcal{J}$ be two ideals on $\mathbf{N}$ which contain the family $\mathrm{Fin}$ of finite sets. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the entries of an infinite real matrix $A=(a_{n,k})$ which maps $\mathcal{I}$-convergent bounded sequences into $\mathcal{J}$-convergent bounded sequences and preserves the corresponding ideal limits. The well-known characterization of regular matrices due to Silverman--Toeplitz corresponds to the case $\mathcal{I}=\mathcal{J}=\mathrm{Fin}$. Lastly, we provide some applications to permutation and diagonal matrices, which extend several known results in the literature.