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Re: Matrix question
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Mar 4, 2013 4:22 PM
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Ken Pledger wrote:
>Dieter von Holten wrote:
>>....
>>the solution is also a square matrix, same size, which has
>>only one 1 in each row and column. i learned recently, that
>>this is called stochastic matrix. the solution is also
>>symmetric to the diagonal....
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>You can't mean that. It would just make every diagonal entry
>1, and give you the identity matrix.
What about an anti-diagonal matrix?
What about a transposition matrix?
What about any permutation matrix of order 2 -- that is,
a permutation matrix P such that P^2 = I.
The given condition is equivalent to the requirement that the
matrix be a product of pairwise disjoint transpositions.
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