“…The two-sided matrix equations AXA * = B and AXB = C have many essential applications in mathematics and other fields, and were extensively studied in the literature; see, e.g., [1,3,5,6,7,9,11,13,14,18,19,20]. Concerning the consistency and general solutions of AXA * = B and AXB = C, the following results are well known; see, e.g., [5,7,13,14].…”