Generalization of Sylvester's law of inertia to the case of rectangle matrix

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Sylvester's law of inertia states given a symmetric matrix $A$ and a squared invertible matrix $S$ of the same size, then $A$ and $SAS^\top$ have the same number of positive, negative, and zero eigenvalues.

Question: I'm wondering if this theorem can be generalized to the case when $S$ is not a squared matrix. For example, $S\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times m}$ with $n<m$, and $rank(S)=n$.