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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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What's wrong with my equations?

A roadside fruit stand sells apples at 75 cents a pound, peaches at 90 cents a pound, and pears at 60 cents a pound. Muriel buys 18 pounds of fruit at total cost of 13.80 dollars. Her peaches and pears together cost 1.80 more than her apples. Set…
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Can we multiply a column in a matrix by an integer?

Sorry if this question is too basic. We can suppose that we have a matrix that reduces to the identity matrix in reduced row-echelon form. My question is fairly simple: Can we multiply one or more columns by a constant and still be able to reduce…
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If A is symmetric positive definite, is -A symmetric negative definite and why?

I ask this because I'm programming a function that does only take a symmetric positive definite matrix as input. But now I'm told give to the function the negation of such a matrix. That makes no sense to me, because I think it's negative definite…
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Trace norm of a matrix

Let $A$ be a matrix in $SL_2(\mathbb R)$. Define the trace norm to be $$\|A\| = \sqrt{\mathrm{tr}(A^* A)}. $$ Is it true that this norm satisfies some kind of multiplicative property; for example: $$\|AB\| \leq \|A\|\cdot\|B\|.$$ Can someone give…
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Linear transformation and matrix basis

Consider the linear transformation $T:M_{2x2}(\mathbb{R}) \rightarrow M_{2x2}(\mathbb{R})$ defined by $T(A)= A^T$. Consider the basis $B$ of $M_{2x2}(\mathbb{R})$, defined…
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An example of matrix with spectral radius < 1

I am trying to run some tests on Jacobie iterative method for solving linear systems. However, I have a problem with finding such matrix $A$, which: isn't diagonally dominant when we take two matrices $D$ and $R$, such that $D$ is diagonal from $A$…
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Positive definiteness of a matrix involving transpose

Given $A \in R^{n \times n}$, $v \in R^n$, $\sigma \in R$, $\sigma=\frac{1}{v^T v}>0$, is $$B=A A^T - \sigma A v v^T A^T$$ positive definite? What I currently know is that $A A^T$ being positive definite and $-\sigma A v v^T A^T$ is a…
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Formula for $ (I+\varepsilon A)^{-1} = ?$

Is there a formula to \begin{equation} (I+\varepsilon A)^{-1} \end{equation} in terms of $A^{-1}$ or $A$, where $I$ is the identity matrix $A$ is an invertible matrix and $\varepsilon$ is a constant?
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Is there a weighted left-inverse of a matrix?

We can find a left inverse $A^{L} = (A^T A)^{-1}A^T$ In a situation $Ax=b$ using this left inverse I can obtain $x=A^{L}b$ This provides with "best-fit" solution for $x$, if I were to re-compute $b' = Ax$ I will get $b \ne b'$ This "best-fit" notion…
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geometric relation orthogonal matrix and inverse

Is there a geometrical relation between the vectors of a 3x3 orthogonal matrix and it's inverse/transpose?
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relation between singular values of A and AM

A is an m-by-n matrix and M is an n-by-n matrix, $\det M \neq 0$. Is it possible to write the singular values of $AM$ as a function of the singular values of $A$? The entries of M can be regarded as known parameters. Thanks!
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Finding a left- and right-multiplied matrix A given the product

I am working my way through this book, in an attempt to teach myself matrix algebra. In the first chapter, the author asks the student to find a matrix $A$ such that: $\begin{bmatrix}1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 2 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & -3\end{bmatrix}\times A\times…
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Approximation of basis vectors of the matrix

Is there any particular matrix $(B)$ such that after multiplying to orginal matrix ($A_{m*n}$) gathering information of the matrix on diagonal of resulting matrix $(C)$?? in other words, "dependent columns" of $A$ after multiplying to $B$ would…
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The eigenvalue or the two norm of a matrix

Let $M\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$. And $$B=\begin{bmatrix} -\theta M-M+c_1 I^{n\times n}& \theta M-c_2I^{n\times n}\\ I^{n\times n}& 0^{n\times n} \end{bmatrix};\quad c_1, c_2,\theta \in \mathbb{R}$$
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LU decomposition with zeros on diagonal

How to do LU decomposition with unit lower triangular matrix L, in case a decomposed matrix has zeros on diagonal? This is obviously possible for positive defined matrix. For example suppose instead of 4 we have 0 here: then u11 = 0 and…
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