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In linear algebra, the main diagonal (sometimes principal diagonal, primary diagonal, leading diagonal, major diagonal, or good diagonal) of a matrix is the list of entries , where =. All off-diagonal elements are zero in a diagonal matrix. The following four matrices have their main diagonals indicated by red ones:
In linear algebra, a diagonal matrix is a matrix in which the entries outside the main diagonal are all zero; the term usually refers to square matrices. Elements of the main diagonal can either be zero or nonzero.
An example of a matrix in Jordan normal form. The grey blocks are called Jordan blocks. The eigendecomposition or diagonalization expresses A as a product VDV −1, where D is a diagonal matrix and V is a suitable invertible matrix. [52] If A can be written in this form, it is called diagonalizable.
A square matrix containing zeros in all entries except for the first row, first column, and main diagonal. Band matrix: A square matrix whose non-zero entries are confined to a diagonal band. Bidiagonal matrix: A matrix with elements only on the main diagonal and either the superdiagonal or subdiagonal. Sometimes defined differently, see article.
A can therefore be decomposed into a matrix composed of its eigenvectors, a diagonal matrix with its eigenvalues along the diagonal, and the inverse of the matrix of eigenvectors. This is called the eigendecomposition and it is a similarity transformation. Such a matrix A is said to be similar to the diagonal matrix Λ or diagonalizable.
Let A be a square n × n matrix with n linearly independent eigenvectors q i (where i = 1, ..., n).Then A can be factored as = where Q is the square n × n matrix whose i th column is the eigenvector q i of A, and Λ is the diagonal matrix whose diagonal elements are the corresponding eigenvalues, Λ ii = λ i.
In linear algebra, the trace of a square matrix A, denoted tr(A), [1] is the sum of the elements on its main diagonal, + + +.It is only defined for a square matrix (n × n).The trace of a matrix is the sum of its eigenvalues (counted with multiplicities).
For example, we can conveniently require the lower triangular matrix L to be a unit triangular matrix, so that all the entries of its main diagonal are set to one. Then the system of equations has the following solution: