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When is a linear isomorphism of $M_n(\mathbb{C})$ given by unitary conjugation?
Let $M_n(\mathbb{C})$ represent the space of $n \times n$ matrices over $\mathbb{C}$. We will think of it as a $\mathbb{C}$-vector space.
Notice that if $A \in M_n(\mathbb{C})$ is invertible, then the ...
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Orthonormal matrices with columns that switch signs
Consider an orthonormal matrix $W\in\mathbb{R}^{2n\times 2n}$ that satisfies the "abs property" $$|w_i|^T |w_{i+n}|=1$$ for all $i \in \{1,2,\ldots,n\}$, where $w_i \in \mathbb{R}^{2n}$ is ...
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Orthonormal solution of overdetermined linear equations
I have a two matrices $A$ and $B$ in $\mathbb{R}^{m \times n }$ ($m \gg $ n) such that there exists an orthonormal matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n }$, such that:
$$AX = B$$
Given that $X$ is ...
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Proving a lemma for a decomposition of orthogonal matrices
Setting
Consider two independent orthogonal matrices, which are decomposed into 4 blocks:
\begin{align}
Q_{1}
=
\left[\begin{array}{cc}
A_{1} & B_{1}\\
C_{1} & D_{1}
\end{array}\right]
,
\,Q_{...
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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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Can an orthogonal matrix move monotonically toward a signed permutation matrix?
The question is motivated by this question on Mathematics SE.
Let $A \in O(n)$ be an orthogonal matrix that is not a signed permutation matrix, and let $P$ be the nearest signed permutation matrix to $...
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Solution for $Xa + X^Tb = c$ where $X^TX = I$? [closed]
There are three known $n\times1$ vectors: $a, b, c$, along with one unknown $n\times n$ matrix: $X$. I am only interested in the $n={2,3}$ cases.
$X$ is $2\times 2$ or $3\times 3$ rotation matrix ...
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Maximize function on rotation matrices [closed]
Let $A$ be a fixed 3-by-3 matrix and $Q$ be a rotation matrix whose yaw, pitch, and roll angles are $\phi\in[0,\pi]$, $\theta\in[0,\pi]$, and $\psi\in[0,\pi/2]$, respectively:
\begin{equation}
Q=
\...
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Minimize matrix norm over the unitary matrices
Suppose $C_1$ and $C_2$ are some fixed $n \times n$ matrices. Define the norm $\| M \| = \sum_{i = 1}^n \max_j |M_{ij}|$. What is $\min_U \|C_1 U C_2 \|$? Here $U$ ranges over the $n \times n$ unitary ...
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A question about special linear group
Is there any way to find all matrices $G \in SL(n,\mathbb Z)$ such that there exists a matrix $A \in GL(n,\mathbb R)$ satisfying
$$
AGA^{-1} \in SO(n,\mathbb R)?
$$
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Orthogonal Matrices and Cosets (translates) of Linear Subspaces
Let $M_n(F_2)$ be the vector space of all $n\times n$ matrices over the finite field $F_2$. Let $O(n)\subset M_n(F_2)$ be the set of all orthogonal matrices and $W\subseteq O(n)$ be an affine subspace ...
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Inverse of matrix $D + ADA^T$
Let $D$ be an arbitrary diagonal matrix and let $A$ be an orthogonal matrix ($A'A = AA' = I$). How to compute the following matrix inverse efficiently?
$$(D + ADA^T)^{-1}$$
Hints or references are ...
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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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Positive definite matrices diagonalised by orthogonal matrices that are also involutions
Let $A$ be a positive definite matrix. Then, $A$ is diagonalized by an orthogonal matrix $P$.
I want to know when this matrix is also an involution, i.e., $P^2 = I$.
If there is any ...
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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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Singular value decomposition of a low rank weak diagonally dominant M-matrix. When is the unitary polar matrix positive semi-definite?
Let $A$ be an $n \times n$, non-symmetric, real, weak diagonally dominant M-Matrix. Its diagonal is strictly positive, its off-diagonal is negative or zero and all its columns sum to zero. $A$ has ...
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Bounding the non-multiplicativity of isometric projection
Every $A \in \text{GL}_n(\mathbb{R})$ has a unique Polar decomposition:
$A=O_AP_A$, $O \in \operatorname{O}_n, P \in \operatorname{Psym}_n$.
In particular the orthogonal factor is given by $$O_A=A(\...
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When does isometric projection respect multiplication?
Every $A \in \text{GL}_n(\mathbb{R})$ has a unique orthogonal polar factor $O_A=A(\sqrt{A^TA})^{-1}$,
( $A=O_AP_A$, $O \in \operatorname{O}_n, P \in \operatorname{Psym}_n$see Polar decomposition).
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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.
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Heuristics for counting degrees of freedom
I have recently learned about the representation theorem for isotropic,
linear operators, which says the following:
Defintion:
Let $M_n$ be the vector space of $n \times n$ real matrices. We say a ...
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Dense symmetric unitary integer matrix?
Can someone give me a nontrivial example of a symmetric unitary integer matrix? I'm looking for something as dense as possible (i.e., not too many 0's); 5 <= size <= 8 would be ideal.
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MInors related problem [closed]
A matrix $A$ has $m$ rows and $n$ colums, such that $m \leq n$. We know that each row of $A$ has the norm $1$ (the norm of an element $x=(x_1,x_2,...,x_n) \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is $||x||=\sqrt{x_1^2+x_2^2+...
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Existence of parametrizations of rational orthogonal matrices
I suppose that there are formulas which parametrize all the orthogonal matrices with rational coefficients. Does anyone know anything about it? And what are some publications that discuss this?
Thanks....
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Is it possible to obtain the vectors orthogonal to a given one by orthogonal transformations?
Hello, everyone!
Supposing that there is a unit vector in $n$-dimensional real space $\mathbf{x}_1\in\mathbb{R}^n$, I want to get a group of $n-1$ vectors to form an orthogonal basis with $\mathbf{x}...
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Parametrization of O(3)
Is there a simple way to parametrize the orthogonal group O(3) of 3 by 3 orthogonal matrices?
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