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The primary difference between a computer algebra system and a traditional calculator is the ability to deal with equations symbolically rather than numerically. The precise uses and capabilities of these systems differ greatly from one system to another, yet their purpose remains the same: manipulation of symbolic equations.
If K is the field of complex numbers, the fundamental theorem of algebra implies that all p i have degree one, and all numerators are constants. When K is the field of real numbers , some of the p i may be quadratic, so, in the partial fraction decomposition, quotients of linear polynomials by powers of quadratic polynomials may also occur.
When completed with the point at infinity, the generalized circles in the plane correspond to circles on the surface of the Riemann sphere, an expression of the complex projective line. Linear fractional transformations permute these circles on the sphere, and the corresponding finite points of the generalized circles in the complex plane.
If a 2 x 2 real matrix has zero trace, its square is a diagonal matrix. The trace of a 2 × 2 complex matrix is used to classify Möbius transformations. First, the matrix is normalized to make its determinant equal to one. Then, if the square of the trace is 4, the corresponding transformation is parabolic.
All non-parabolic transformations have two fixed points and are defined by a matrix conjugate to with the complex number λ not equal to 0, 1 or −1, corresponding to a dilation/rotation through multiplication by the complex number k = λ 2, called the characteristic constant or multiplier of the transformation.
where denotes the transpose of and is a fixed nonsingular, skew-symmetric matrix.This definition can be extended to matrices with entries in other fields, such as the complex numbers, finite fields, p-adic numbers, and function fields.
The rational canonical form is determined by the elementary divisors of A; these can be immediately read off from a matrix in Jordan form, but they can also be determined directly for any matrix by computing the Smith normal form, over the ring of polynomials, of the matrix (with polynomial entries) XI n − A (the same one whose determinant ...
As a direct consequence of simultaneous triangulizability, the eigenvalues of two commuting complex matrices A, B with their algebraic multiplicities (the multisets of roots of their characteristic polynomials) can be matched up as in such a way that the multiset of eigenvalues of any polynomial (,) in the two matrices is the multiset of the ...