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Types of matrices — triangular, diagonal, scalar, identity, symmetric, skew-symmetric, periodic, nilpotent




Upper triangular matrix. A square matrix in which all the elements below the diagonal are zero i.e. a matrix of type:

 

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Lower triangular matrix. A square matrix in which all the elements above the diagonal are zero i.e. a matrix of type



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Diagonal matrix. A square matrix in which all of the elements are zero except for the diagonal elements i.e. a matrix of type

 


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It is often written as D = diag(a11, a22, a33, ... , ann)



Scalar matrix. A diagonal matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are equal to some constant “k” i.e. a matrix of type

 

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Identity matrix. A diagonal matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are equal to “1" i.e. a matrix of type

 


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An identity matrix of order nxn is denoted by In .



Transpose of a matrix. The matrix resulting from interchanging the rows and columns in the given matrix. The transpose of


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 The first row of A becomes the first column of AT, the second row of A becomes the second column of AT, etc.. It corresponds to a “flip”of the matrix about the diagonal running down from the upper left corner.




Symmetric matrix. A square matrix in which corresponding elements with respect to the diagonal are equal; a matrix in which aij = aji where aij is the element in the i-th row and j-th column; a matrix which is equal to its transpose; a square matrix in which a flip about the diagonal leaves it unchanged. Example:


                                                                                                 

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Skew-symmetric matrix. A square matrix in which corresponding elements with respect to the diagonal are negatives of each other; a matrix in which aij = -aji where aij is the element in the i-th row and j-th column; a matrix which is equal to the negative of its transpose. The diagonal elements are always zeros. Example:                                                               


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Direct Sum. Let A1, A2, ... ,As be square matrices of respective orders m1, m2, ... ,ms .

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 of the diagonal matrix is called the direct sum of the Ai.

 




Inverse of a matrix. If A and B are square matrices such that AB = BA = I where I is the identity matrix , then B is called the inverse of A and we write B = A-1 . The matrix B also has A as an inverse and we can write A = B-1 .




Commutative and anti-commutative matrices. If A and B are square matrices such that AB = BA, then A and B are called commutative or are said to commute. If AB = -BA, the matrices are said to anti-commute.




Periodic matrix. A matrix A for which Ak+1 = A , where k is a positive integer. If k is the least positive integer for which Ak+1 = A , then A is said to be of period k. If k = 1, so that A2 = A, then A is called idempotent.



Nilpotent matrix. A matrix A for which Ap = 0, where p is some positive integer. If p is the least positive integer for which Ap = 0, then A is said to be nilpotent of index p.


 


References.

  Ayres. Matrices (Schaum).



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