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Nestedness is a measure of structure in an ecological system, usually applied to species-sites systems (describing the distribution of species across locations), or species-species interaction networks (describing the interactions between species, usually as bipartite networks such as hosts-parasites, plants-pollinators, etc.).
The identity matrix I n of size n is the n-by-n matrix in which all the elements on the main diagonal are equal to 1 and all other elements are equal to 0, for example, = [], = [], = [] It is a square matrix of order n, and also a special kind of diagonal matrix.
In mathematics, the spectrum of a matrix is the set of its eigenvalues. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] More generally, if T : V → V {\displaystyle T\colon V\to V} is a linear operator on any finite-dimensional vector space , its spectrum is the set of scalars λ {\displaystyle \lambda } such that T − λ I {\displaystyle T-\lambda I} is not invertible .
When this matrix is square, that is, when the function takes the same number of variables as input as the number of vector components of its output, its determinant is referred to as the Jacobian determinant. Both the matrix and (if applicable) the determinant are often referred to simply as the Jacobian in literature. [4]
The full stiffness matrix A is the sum of the element stiffness matrices. In particular, for basis functions that are only supported locally, the stiffness matrix is sparse. For many standard choices of basis functions, i.e. piecewise linear basis functions on triangles, there are simple formulas for the element stiffness matrices.
The identity matrices (which are the square matrices whose entries are zero outside of the main diagonal and 1 on the main diagonal) are identity elements of the matrix product. It follows that the n × n matrices over a ring form a ring, which is noncommutative except if n = 1 and the ground ring is commutative.
The set of all doubly stochastic matrices is called the Birkhoff polytope, and the permutation matrices play a special role in that polytope. The Birkhoff–von Neumann theorem says that every doubly stochastic real matrix is a convex combination of permutation matrices of the same order, with the permutation matrices being precisely the ...
A diagonal matrix where the diagonal elements are either +1 or −1. Single-entry matrix: A matrix where a single element is one and the rest of the elements are zero. Skew-Hermitian matrix: A square matrix which is equal to the negative of its conjugate transpose, A * = −A. Skew-symmetric matrix