ELA, Volume 11, pp. 246-257, November 2004, abstract. On Reducing and Deflating Subspaces Vladimir Monov and Michael Tsatsomeros A multilinear approach based on Grassmann representatives and matrix compounds is presented for the identification of reducing pairs of subspaces that are common to two or more matrices. Similar methods are employed to characterize the deflating pairs of subspaces for a regular matrix pencil A+sB, namely, pairs of subspaces (L,M) such that A L \subseteq M and B L \subseteq M.