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Questions where the notion matrix has an important or crucial role (for the latter, note the tag matrix-theory for potential use). Matrices appear in various parts of mathematics, and this tag is typically combined with other tags to make the general subject clear, such as an appropriate top-level tag ra.rings-and-algebras, co.combinatorics, etc. and other tags that might be applicable. There are also several more specialized tags concerning matrices.

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Determinant of a $k \times k$ block matrix

Subtracting the last row of blocks from the first $k-1$ rows of blocks, we obtain $$\begin{bmatrix}A-B & O & O & \dots & O & B-A\\ O & A-B & O & \dots & O & B-A\\ O & O & A-B & \dots & O & B-A\\ \vdo …
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Decomposing a matrix into a product of sparse matrices

In other words, we left-multiply $\mathrm A$ by permutation matrices (whose inverses are their transposes) and by elementary matrices of the form $$\mathrm E_{ij} := \mathrm I_n + \beta_{ij} \, \mathrm … Hence, the larger $n$, the sparser the matrices. …
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Is there a name for matrices of the form $a_{ij}=\frac{1}{a_{ji}}$?

Note that you are considering currency exchange matrices where $R_{ij} R_{ji} = 1$, which one could call perfect currency exchange matrices. … I would have written $R_{ij} R_{ji} \leq 1$ instead, in order to include the (reciprocal) perfect currency exchange matrices, too. …
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Finding Toeplitz matrix nearest to a given matrix

M_2, \dots, \mathrm M_n$ are $n \times n$ symmetric Toeplitz basis matrices. … Let $\mathrm M_1 = \mathrm I_n$ correspond to the main diagonal, whereas the remaining basis matrices correspond to super and sub diagonals. …
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What is the term for this type of matrix?

When $b = 0$, we have an $n \times n$ symmetric arrowhead matrix. When $b \neq 0$, we have $$\begin{bmatrix} c & c & c & \cdots & c & c \\ c & a & b & \cdots & b & b \\ c & b & a & \cdots & b & b \\ …
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Minimization problem involving the inverse of an affine matrix function

Rephrasing slightly, given (symmetric) matrix $\mathrm A \succeq \mathrm O_n$, we have the following minimization problem in (symmetric) matrix $\mathrm X \succeq \mathrm O_n$ $$\begin{array}{ll} \te …
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Do these matrices have a name?

the Sylvester construction $$\mathrm H_{2k} = \begin{bmatrix} \mathrm H_k & \mathrm H_k\\ \mathrm H_k & -\mathrm H_k\end{bmatrix} \qquad \qquad \qquad \mathrm H_1 = 1$$ which builds (symmetric) Walsh matrices
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Is this inequality involving the Frobenius norm right?

Given $\mathrm A \in \mathbb R^{m \times n}$ and $\mathrm B \in \mathbb R^{n \times p}$, let $\mathrm B \mathrm B^{\top} = \mathrm Q \Lambda \mathrm Q^{\top}$ be an eigendecomposition of $\mathrm B \m …
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Positive definite matrices diagonalised by orthogonal matrices that are also involutions

Let $n \times n$ matrix $\rm A$ be symmetric and positive definite. Since $\rm A$ is symmetric, it is diagonalizable. Hence, there exists a (non-singular) matrix $\rm P$ such that $\mathrm A = \mathrm …
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Large power of an adjacency matrix

Since the adjacency matrix $\mathrm A$ is not symmetric, we have a directed graph. Given a positive integer $k$, the $(i,j)$-th entry of $\mathrm A^k$ gives us the number of directed walks of lengt …
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Solving $\text{trace}\left[\left(I + pY\right)^{-1} \left(I - p^{2}Y\right)\right] = 0$ for ...

The product of two upper triangular matrices is also upper triangular with the main diagonal being the entrywise product of the main diagonals of the factors. …
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Nontrivial lower bound on the sum of matrix norms

Let function $f : \mathbb R^{m \times n} \to \mathbb R_0^+$ be defined as follows $$f (\mathrm X) := \| \,\mathrm X \mathrm A^\top \|_\text{F}^2 + \| \,\mathrm X^\top \mathrm A \,\|_\text{F}^2 + \lef …
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Determinant of a $k \times k$ block matrix

Let us assume that $A-B$ is invertible. Write $$\begin{array}{rl} C &= \begin{bmatrix} A & B & \ldots & B\\ B & A & \ldots & B\\ \vdots & \vdots & \ddots & \vdots\\B & B & \ldots & A\end{bmatrix}\\\\ …
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Symmetric linear least-squares solution

Complementing Denis Serre's answer and rephrasing the original problem slightly, given tall matrices $\rm A$ and $\rm B$, we have the following quadratic program in square matrix $\rm X$ $$\begin{array …
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Integral of the entrywise square of the exponential of a matrix

Given a Hurwitz matrix $\mathrm A \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$, let $$\Phi (t) := \exp(\mathrm A t)$$ be the state transition matrix, and let its $(i,j)$-th entry be denoted by $$\varphi_{ij} (t) := …
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