“…The spectral theory of matrix pencils is a generalization of the eigenvalue problem for matrices [17,26,31,35]. Recently, there is a growing interest in the spectral behavior under low rank perturbations of matrices [2,12,27,30,33,34] and of matrix pencils [1,13,14,15,29]. For matrices it was shown in [12] that under generic rank one perturbations only the largest Jordan chain at each eigenvalue might be destroyed.…”