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Eigenvalues of certain matrices

We write $R(\theta)=\left(\begin{smallmatrix}\cos(2\pi\theta)&\sin(2\pi\theta)\\ -\sin(2\pi\theta)&\cos(2\pi\theta)\end{smallmatrix}\right)$ for any $\theta\in\mathbb R$. Let $d,m,n,r$ be a ...
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Is there a matrix that has the completely opposite effect of a Hadamard matrix?

First, let me provide some background on the problem: In the field of Large Language Model quantization/compressions, outliers (abs of outliers are much larger than the mean of abs of all elements in ...
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About the Hadamard conjecture

On the wikipedia article about Hadamard Matrix it says that "The smallest order that cannot be constructed by a combination of Sylvester's and Paley's methods is $92$" But it also says that ...
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Orthogonal basis of ${\bf Sym}_n(\mathbb R)$, made of orthogonal matrices

My question is motivated by this one, but within real matrices instead of complex ones. ${\bf Sym}_n(\mathbb R)$ is a vector space of dimension $N=\frac{n(n+1)}2$. Equipped with the scalar product $\...
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LU decomposition for orthogonal or unitary matrices?

Is there any references on LU decomposition for orthogonal or unitary matrices? It seems to me that the diagonal entries of $U$ has some nice structure regarding to the Euler angles of the original ...
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Generalization of Jordan's Lemma $A^2=B^2=I$ can be 2-block diagonalized

One of Jordan's lemma states that if two orthogonal matrices $A,B$ are such that $A^2=B^2=I$, then they can be co-diagonalized by block of size 2. (the proof is easy, consider $x$ an eigenvector of $A+...
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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 ...
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Characterizing a subclass of row-orthogonal matrices

Let $O\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times m}$, $m>n$, be such that $O O^\top =I_n$. (Here $\bullet^\top$ denotes transposition and $I_n$ the $n\times n$ identity matrix.) Consider the following partition of $O$,...
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What's the best orthonormal matrix to align two matrices in the operator norm sense?

Let $A,B \in R^{n\times r}$ with $A^\top B $ invertible. It is known that \begin{equation} UV^\top :=\arg\min_{R \in \mathcal{O}^{r\times r}}\|AR-B\|_\mathrm{F}, \end{equation} where $USV^\top$ is ...
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A question on orthogonal matrix [closed]

Let $P\in R^{n\times n}$ be an orthogonal matrix. I want to ask whether or not there exists some vector $x\in R^n$ containing no zero entries such that $Px$ also contains no zero entries.