# Name for an operation on matrices?

Given two matrices $A$ and $B$ of size $a \times n$ and $b \times m$ consider the following operation $A \dagger B$ whose result is an $a b^n \times n m$ matrix. $A \dagger B$ is a block matrix with $a$ blocks $(A \dagger B)_{i,j}$ of size $b^n \times n m$ each constructed as follows. For each vector $j \in \{1, \dots, b\}^n$ create a row $(A_{i,1} \cdot B_{j[1]}, A_{i,2} \cdot B_{j[2]}, \dots, A_{i,n} \cdot B_{j[n]})$ where $B_t$ is the $t$-th row of $B$.

Is there a name for this matrix operation?

• How is this operation arising? Or are you hoping to call it the "Yaroslavtsev super-slam"? Sep 29, 2015 at 16:33
• I just need the fact that $rank(A \dagger B) = rank(A)rank(B)$ which is easy to show directly. However, it would be helpful to know if this operation and its properties are already known so that I can just cite an appropriate source. I like your "super-slam" idea though :) Sep 29, 2015 at 16:50
• I'm in favor of the yaroslavtsev super-slam. You can cite this MO question:) Sep 29, 2015 at 18:42
• If you just need rank multiplicativity, there is a more economic one - tensor product (of size $ab\times nm$, with $(A\otimes B)_{\langle i,k\rangle,\langle j,l\rangle}=A_{i,j}B_{k,l}$) Sep 29, 2015 at 20:09
• I've posted a question about the latter Sep 30, 2015 at 6:32