“…This problem was solved by Kronecker [19] (see also [16,21]). Nevertheless, the analysis of matrix pencils is still an active research area (see, e.g., the recent paper [18]), mainly because of numerical issues, or to find ways to obtain the Kronecker canonical form efficiently (see, e.g., [36,37,8,12,13,38]). Our main goal in this paper is to highlight the importance of the Wong sequences [40] for the analysis of matrix pencils.…”