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Visual understanding of multiplication by the transpose of a matrix. If A is an orthogonal matrix and B is its transpose, the ij-th element of the product AA T will vanish if i≠j, because the i-th row of A is orthogonal to the j-th row of A. An orthogonal matrix is the real specialization of a unitary matrix, and thus always a normal matrix.
In finite-dimensional spaces, the matrix representation (with respect to an orthonormal basis) of an orthogonal transformation is an orthogonal matrix. Its rows are mutually orthogonal vectors with unit norm, so that the rows constitute an orthonormal basis of V. The columns of the matrix form another orthonormal basis of V.
In most cases the effect of the ambiguity is equivalent to the effect of a rotation matrix inversion (for these orthogonal matrices equivalently matrix transpose). Alias or alibi (passive or active) transformation The coordinates of a point P may change due to either a rotation of the coordinate system CS , or a rotation of the point P .
In linear algebra, the transpose of a matrix is an operator which flips a matrix over its diagonal; that is, it switches the row and column indices of the matrix A by producing another matrix, often denoted by A T (among other notations). [1] The transpose of a matrix was introduced in 1858 by the British mathematician Arthur Cayley. [2]
An orthogonal matrix A is necessarily invertible (with inverse A −1 = A T), unitary (A −1 = A*), and normal (A*A = AA*). The determinant of any orthogonal matrix is either +1 or −1. The special orthogonal group consists of the n × n orthogonal matrices with determinant +1. The complex analogue of an orthogonal matrix is a unitary matrix.
Equivalently, it is the group of n × n orthogonal matrices, where the group operation is given by matrix multiplication (an orthogonal matrix is a real matrix whose inverse equals its transpose). The orthogonal group is an algebraic group and a Lie group. It is compact. The orthogonal group in dimension n has two connected components.
A matrix will preserve or reverse orientation according to whether the determinant of the matrix is positive or negative. For an orthogonal matrix R, note that det R T = det R implies (det R) 2 = 1, so that det R = ±1. The subgroup of orthogonal matrices with determinant +1 is called the special orthogonal group, denoted SO(3).
These matrices are the orthogonal matrices (i.e. each is a square matrix G whose transpose is its inverse, i.e. = =.), with determinant 1 (the other possibility for orthogonal matrices is −1, which gives a mirror image, see below).