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What do you call a scaled orthogonal map?
What do you call a linear map of the form $\alpha X$, where $\alpha\in\Bbb R$ and $X\in\mathrm O(V)$ is an orthogonal map ($V$ being some linear space with inner product)? Are there established names, ...
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Is there a standard name for (non-square) matrices with orthonormal columns?
One encounters often in numerics non-square matrices with orthonormal columns, i.e., $U\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$, with $m > n$, such that $U^TU=I$ (but, clearly, $UU^T \neq I$).
Is there a name ...
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What is the term for this type of matrix?
Is there an established term for the following type of square matrices?
$\begin{pmatrix}
c & c & c & c & \cdots & c & c \\
c & a & b & b & \cdots & b & ...
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What is the term for a matrix whose columns are orthogonal?
What is the term for a matrix whose columns are mutually orthogonal, but not necessarily othonormal?
I can't name such a matrix "orthogonal" because that would imply that all columns are unit vectors....