ELA, Volume1, pp. 44-58, November 1996, abstract. Periodic Coprime Matrix Fraction Decompositions Rafael Bru, Carmen Coll, and Josep Gelonch A study is presented of right (left) coprime decompositions of a collection of N-periodic rational matrices, with some ordered structure. From a block-ordered right coprime decomposition of a rational matrix of the given periodic collection, the corresponding block-ordered right coprime decompositions of the remaining matrices of the collection are constructed. In addition, those decompositions are N-periodic.