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adjoint
a generalization in category theory of this notion -
hermitian matrix
Mathematics. a matrix, whose entries are complex numbers, equal to the transpose of the matrix whose entries are the conjugates of the entries of the given matrix. -
similarity transformation
Also called homothetic transformation. a mapping of a set by which each element in the set is mapped into a positive constant multiple of itself, the same constant being used for all elements. -
characteristic polynomial
an expression obtained from a given matrix by taking the determinant of the difference between the matrix and an arbitrary variable times the identity matrix. -
symmetric matrix
a matrix with the lower-left half equal to the mirror image of the upper-right half; a matrix that is its own transpose. -
diagonal matrix
a square matrix in which all the entries except those along the diagonal from upper left to lower right are zero.