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Is the linear span of special orthogonal matrices equal to the whole space of $N\times N$ matrices?
(Disclaimer : I know very well that $SO(N)$ has a Lie algebra of dimension $N(N-1)/2$ etc. This absolutely not the point of my question.)
To make my problem more understandable, I start with the ...