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A matrix is a rectangular array of elements, usually numbers or variables, arranged in rows and columns. A matrix with $m$ rows and $n$ columns has $m \times n$ elements and is called an $m$ by $n$ matrix. Matrices are a part of .

Matrices can be added and subtracted. Furthermore, if they have compatible shapes, they can be multiplied. More precisely, given two matrices $A$ and $B$, the matrix $AB$ is defined when the number of columns of $A$ is equal to the number of rows of $B$. In particular, given a natural number $n$, any two matrices $A$ and $B$ with $n$ columns and $n$ rows can be multiplied in both ways (that is, both $AB$ and $BA$ exist).


For questions specifically concerning matrix equations, use the tag.

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Does the Lie-Trotter product generalize to more than two matrices?

Does the Lie-Trotter product formula generalize to more than two matrices? I.e., $e^{A+B+C} = \lim_{k \to \infty} \left( e^{\frac{A}k} e^{\frac{B}k} e^{\frac{C}k} \right)^k$ ?
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Values of integer $n\geq 2$ for some matrices $n\times n$ with special property to exist

The problem is to determine the integer values $n\geq 2$ such that there exist matrices $A,B\in M_n(\mathbb{C})$ with the properties $(AB)^2=(BA)^2=O_n$ and $ABA\ne O_n, BAB\ne O_n$. Apparently, for $n=2$ no such matrices exist. Also, if one finds…
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Matrix group isomorphic to R

Given the set G=\begin{bmatrix}a&b\\0&c\end{bmatrix}, where a,c ∈R*, b ∈R and its subgroup H=\begin{bmatrix}a&b\\0&a^m\end{bmatrix}, where a ∈R*, b ∈R and m ∈Z, show that the factor group G/H is isomorphic to the multiplicative group of real…
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Can you write this operation in matrix notation?

Consider the matrix $A$ and column vector $b$ where, $A = \begin{bmatrix}1 & 2\\3 & 4\end{bmatrix}$ and $b = \begin{bmatrix}1\\3\end{bmatrix}$ In the R statistics software, the the code A*b performs element-wise multiplication of the columns in $A$…
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If $Ax=b$ has infinitely many solutions, prove there exists $c$ such that $Ax=c$ has no solutions

Where $A\in M_n(F)$, and $b,c\in F^n$. What is the approach? Thanks.
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How to get the matrix of a computation (MIT 18.06SC)

I have this matrix A: | 1 0 0 0 | | 1 1 0 0 | | 1 2 1 0 | | 2 3 2 1 | If I multiply the first row with (-1), and add it up to the second row, we have the matrix B: | 1 0 0 0 | | 0 1 0 0 | | 1 2 1 0 | | 2 3 2 1 | And E is an unknown matrix…
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A matrix problem :)

If $l_i,m_i,n_i$ ; $i=1,2,3$ denote the direction cosines of three mutually perpendicular vectors in space, provided that $AA^T=I$ ,where $$A=\begin{bmatrix} l_1 & m_1 & n_1 \\ l_2 & m_2 & n_2 \\ l_3 & m_3 & n_3 \\ …
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If $\omega$ is a complex cube root of unity, show that the following equals null matrix.

If $\omega$ is a complex cube root of unity, show that $$ \left( \begin{bmatrix} 1 & \omega & \omega^2 \\ \omega & \omega^2 & 1 \\ \omega^2 & 1 & \omega \\ \end{bmatrix} + \begin{bmatrix} \omega & \omega^2…
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Prove that $\sigma_2 = U \sigma_2 U^\top$ for all $U\in\operatorname{SU}(2)$

Let $\sigma_1,\sigma_2,\sigma_3$ be the Pauli matrices. Prove that $U\sigma_2 U^\top=\sigma_2$ for all $U\in\operatorname{SU}(2)$. I can prove that $U\sigma_2 U^\top= \pm \sigma_2$ using the fact that $U\sigma_2 U^\top$ is skew-symmetric and that…
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On a Property of Perron Projection

For any positive matrix $A$, let $M=\frac{A}{\rho(A)}$. $G$ is the Perron projection of $M$. I happen to find for any positive vector $v>0$, there is always $\left| \Vert v\Vert_1-\Vert vG\Vert_1 \right|\geq \left| \Vert vM\Vert_1-\Vert vG \Vert_1…
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For a diagonal matrix $M$, what is $e^M$?

For a diagonal matrix $$ M=\left(\begin{array}{ccc} a & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & b & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & c \end{array}\right) $$ show that $$ e^M=\left(\begin{array}{ccc} e^a & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & e^b & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & e^c \end{array}\right). $$
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Identity of inverse matrix

How can I prove that $$(C_{N}^{-1} + W_{N})^{-1} = C_{N}(I + W_{N}C_{N})^{-1}$$ I tried to use the Woodbury identity: $$(A + BD^{-1}C)^{-1} = A^{-1}-A^{-1}B(D+CA^{-1}B)^{-1}CA^{-1}$$ which seems to be useful in this case, but I can't simplify enough…
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How can I solve this matrix?

I have a set of RGB colour values detected by a camera $C_{i_{RGB}}$ which are to be described by the following: $C_{i_{RGB}} = X F_{i_{rgb}}$ where $F_{i_{rgb}}$ is the component incident light at the detector, where the components $rgb$ are fixed…
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Block matrix notation

Given that $A$ is a real, rectangular matrix of dimension $m \times n$ and $$\begin{align} A = \left[\begin{array}{c} I \\ e^{\intercal} \\ -e^{\intercal}\end{array}\right] \end{align}$$ is represented in block matrix notation. What does $A$ look…
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Find an elementary matrix such that $EA=B$

I am given two matrices, and I have to find an elementary matrix $A$ such that $EA=B$. $$E = \begin{bmatrix}2&4\\2&-6\end{bmatrix}$$ $$B = \begin{bmatrix}10&4\\-10&-6\end{bmatrix}$$ I tried "transposing" the equation, meaning $(EA)^T = B^T$. The…