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Adjugate matrix. In linear algebra, the adjugate of a square matrix A is the transpose of its cofactor matrix and is denoted by adj (A). [1][2] It is also occasionally known as adjunct matrix, [3][4] or "adjoint", [5] though the latter term today normally refers to a different concept, the adjoint operator which for a matrix is the conjugate ...
Conjugate transpose. In mathematics, the conjugate transpose, also known as the Hermitian transpose, of an complex matrix is an matrix obtained by transposing and applying complex conjugation to each entry (the complex conjugate of being , for real numbers and ). There are several notations, such as or , [1] , [2] or (often in physics) .
Hermitian matrices are applied in the design and analysis of communications system, especially in the field of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Channel matrices in MIMO systems often exhibit Hermitian properties. In graph theory, Hermitian matrices are used to study the spectra of graphs. The Hermitian Laplacian matrix is a key ...
In matrix calculus, Jacobi's formula expresses the derivative of the determinant of a matrix A in terms of the adjugate of A and the derivative of A. [1] If A is a differentiable map from the real numbers to n × n matrices, then. where tr (X) is the trace of the matrix X and is its adjugate matrix. (The latter equality only holds if A (t) is ...
An orthogonal matrix Q is necessarily invertible (with inverse Q −1 = Q T), unitary (Q −1 = Q ∗), where Q ∗ is the Hermitian adjoint (conjugate transpose) of Q, and therefore normal (Q ∗ Q = QQ ∗) over the real numbers. The determinant of any orthogonal matrix is either +1 or −1.
Cramer's rule. In linear algebra, Cramer's rule is an explicit formula for the solution of a system of linear equations with as many equations as unknowns, valid whenever the system has a unique solution. It expresses the solution in terms of the determinants of the (square) coefficient matrix and of matrices obtained from it by replacing one ...
The matrix of the adjoint of a map is the transposed matrix only if the bases are orthonormal with respect to their bilinear forms. In this context, many authors however, use the term transpose to refer to the adjoint as defined here. The adjoint allows us to consider whether g : Y → X is equal to u −1 : Y → X.
A complex matrix U is special unitary if it is unitary and its matrix determinant equals 1. For real numbers, the analogue of a unitary matrix is an orthogonal matrix. Unitary matrices have significant importance in quantum mechanics because they preserve norms, and thus, probability amplitudes.