Questions on the manipulation of matrices in Mathematica.
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extracting the rows of a matrix satisfying a condition (e.g. all elements negative)
I have a matrix with thousands of rows and want the submatrix comprising the rows of the original matrix that have, e.g. a negative element in column 3. How to do that?
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How could I find the correct values for every array that would lead me to unique summation number for every unique chain? [migrated]
I have 9 arrays, each array has 9 values, I need to get the proper values in every value's position for every array, and that would give my a completely unique summations for every value's chain from ...
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Expanding Matrix Expressions
I want Mathematica to recognize that
A.(-B.C)+A.B.C = 0
Yet FullSimplify and the like leaves the expression as it is. How do I get around this?
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Add a sub-matrix of zeros in big matrix [duplicate]
I have a matrix of size $24\times24$ composed by 8 $3\times3$ submatrices in a diagonal way. I want to add a matrices of zeros ($3\times3$) between the sub-matrices, so the final matrix would be of ...
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Saddle Point in Matrix
Here is the Problem how to find out the Saddle Point inside Matrix.
m = {{9, 3, 1, 8, 0},
{6, 5, 4, 6, 7},
{2, 4, 4, 3, 8},
{5, 6, 2, 2, 1}}
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Mass Symbolic Manipulation with Subscripts? (from plaintext Input)
The simplest example of the change being sought is a greek letter, typed in as plaintext nu, and its may be replaced by the symbol, ν:
expr = 3nu*kx*ky+ ...
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Optimizing a simple calculus using a list of matrices - Repeated dot product between a vector and a list of matrices [closed]
I want to make the following operation :
$$ \begin{bmatrix} \dot q_1\\\dot q_2 \end{bmatrix} + \begin{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} q_1 & q_2 \end{bmatrix} \mathbf A_1 \begin{bmatrix} q_1\\ q_2 ...
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How do I access the binary matrix underlying an EdgeDetect output?
Applying EdgeDetect to an image generates a black and white edge-detected image, which I suspect corresponds to an underlying binary matrix. How can I access this ...
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Why is arithmetic faster for inexact arithmetic?
I have been trying to compute eigenvalues of a rather sizable matrix A, about $500 \times 500$ (but sparse). I asked Mathematica to compute ...
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Import matrices side-by-side separated by TAB
The problem is 0(TAB)0 interpreted falsely as a dark red square although it should be a dark red square surrounded by zeroes/ones. Import has different data-formats ...
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A matrix-vector cross product
I want to do a cross product involving a vector of Pauli matrices $\vec \sigma = \left( {{\sigma _1},{\sigma _2},{\sigma _3}} \right)$; for example, $\vec \sigma \times \left( {1,2,3} \right)$.
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Solve equations real and imaginary part separately
For my system of equations, the procedure described in Solving complex equations of using Reduce works no more. How can I separate the real and imaginary part of ...
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How do I plot Numerical Range of two hermitian matrices
Let $A_1$ and $A_2$ be two $3\times 3$ hermitian matrices. Then their numerical range is defined as two-dimensional set
\begin{align}
\mathbb{S}=\{\left[u^HA_1u,u^HA_2u\right]\in ...
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Exploiting self-adjointness when changing basis
I am using Mathematica to analyze a real, self-adjoint matrix $H$ of the size $32 \times 32$, which comes from a physics problem. In the picture there is also a matrix $Q$ which commutes with $H$.
I ...
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How to rewrite this function to be faster: Find sub-matrixes of boolean board which imply a given boolean pattern
I have Boolean matrix A (called "board") and Boolean matrix B with smaller dimensions (called "pattern"). I am trying to find sub-matrixes C of A such that C has same dimensions as B, and ...
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Defining an Implies operation that works for Boolean matrices
I have two Boolean matrices, that both have dimensions m x n. I want to create a function TableImplies, which would return True ...
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Declaration of abstract matrices to perform series expansion on them
I would like to have abstract matrices M and S to get out the coefficients of matrix power series however it treats M and S as numbers even if i checked that M.S - S.M != 0. I attach my code below:
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Matrix multiplication that includes a tensor
How would I best express the following in Mathematica:
$\begin{pmatrix}2 & 4\end{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix}r_1 & r_2\\r_3 & r_4\end{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix}6 \\ 8\end{pmatrix}$, where $r_i$ ...
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Partial row reduction of a matrix
I have an $m\times n$ matrix (presumably of full rank) with $m>n$, and I would like to row reduce it, but leave the last column unreduced; that is, I want to get output on the form
$\pmatrix{ 1 ...
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How to find the index of a square matrix in Mathematica quickly?
Let $A$ be an $n\times n$ complex matrix. The smallest nonnegative integer $k$ such that $\mathrm{rank}(A^{k+1})=\mathrm{rank}(A^{k})$, is the index fo $A$ and denoted by $\mathrm{Ind}(A)$. I would ...
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large matrix eigenvalue problem
I need solve a very large complex matrix (not sparse and not symmetry) eigenvalue problem, e.g., 1e4*1e4 or even 1e6*1e6.
How large dimensions of the matrix can Mathematica support? And, how about ...
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Fast calculation of commute distances on large graphs (i.e. fast computation of the pseudo-inverse of a large Laplacian / Kirchhoff matrix)
I have a large, locally connected and undirected graph $G$ with $\approx 10^4$ vertices and $\approx 10^5$ to $\approx 10^6$ edges. Moreover I can bound the maximum vertex degree as $Q_{max}$. I ...
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Compute the rank of a matrix with variable entries
Say I have a matrix like
$$
M=\left(
\begin{array}{c c c}
x & xz & w-2x \\
wz^3 & xy & z \\
y^2-z^3 & x+w & z+x^5
\end{array}
\right)
$$
is it possible to ask Mathematica ...
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Matrix echelon/upper diagonal form
Is there a way to find the echelon form of a matrix in Mathematica? I see there is a function to find the reduced echelon form, RowReduce[], but I can't see ...
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Defining and Solving Systems of Equations Using Matrix Tables
I've defined a system of equations, but I been unable to get Mathematica to solve for the individual variables created by matrix tables.
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Dynamically filling matrix with a[[n,m]] = 1/a[[m,n]]
I'm building a square matrix, with 1s on the diagonal and elements in U the inverse of elements in L, which are random integers drawn from the sequence 1, ..., 9. Given the nature of the problem I ...
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Ploting from Matrix [closed]
I use Import function from excel in order to get my data. My data contains 3 columns.
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changing a symbol into a function variable
Struggled for a while on this problem and hopefully you can help... I have a mathematical expression that currently has a symbol where I used to have a function variable. How do I make the symbol ...
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Computing distance matrix for a list
Using functional programming in Mathematica, how can I compute a distance matrix for every element in a list of matrices... The distance would be computed between the item in the list and a "target ...
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Is there a built in function to obtain the back diagonal of a matrix?
Given the following matrix:
m = Array[Subscript[a, #, #2] &, {4, 4}]
how can I find the skew diagonal or anti-diagonal or back diagonal of the matrix ...
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Weighted Kirchhoff Matrix?
I have a weighted graph and I want its graph Laplacian matrix (what Mathematica calls the Kirchhoff matrix in the unweighted case). Is there an easy way to get this?
For example, the command:
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Efficient ways to create matrices and solve matrix equations
I am attempting, for the first time, to use Mathematica to do some serious linear algebra. I would like to solve systems of equations of the form $$U_{n n'} f_{n'} = b_n.$$
I have an expression for ...
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Symbolic Calculations with formal matrices [duplicate]
I want to make calculations with matrices in the form (for lovers of statistical mechanics, is just the first step replica symmetry breaking)
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6x6 matrix NullSpace
I'm working with a 6x6 matrix. Whenever I try to find the NullSpace and FullSimplify it, I get the error
No more memory ...
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Matrix Rotation
If I have a 2 D matrix of any size say
$\left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
72 & 32 & 64 \\
18 & 8 & 16 \\
63 & 28 & 56 \\
\end{array}
\right)$
$\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
72 & ...
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Jacobi eigenvalue and eigenvectors algorithm
Suppose we have a symmetric matrix with dimensions n x n. I need to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of this matrix using the Jacobi method. I wrote this code:
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Is it possible to lower the bitwidth of (floating point) numbers?
The answer to this question will most probably be a definite no. Nevertheless, I would like to know whether it is possible to represent reals in the memory on less than the standard 32 or 64 bits ...
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Convenient methods to sum select rows (or cols) of a matrix? [duplicate]
What are some convenient methods to sum selected rows or columns in a matrix? This question Summing along rows or columns of a matrix only addresses how to sun entire rows or columns ie, by level.
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Using the mouse coordinates to index a matrix
I would like to "write" on to a matrix using the mouse. That is, I would like to use the integer value of Locator coordinates (p) to index a matrix. Then, if the mouse button is down, write a 1 in ...
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Define new number set
May seem strange at first, but can you make mathematica change the value of 0 to 10 and 11 to 1 for all occurrences. Let me explain:
I'm looping through a matrix and for each element, I want ...
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Translating MATLAB's cell2mat into Mathematica
How I can define a function in Mathematica such that it acts same as the cell2mat command in MATLAB?
Example (in MATLAB):
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How do I divide the columns of a matrix by the sum of its elements?
I am trying to create a transition matrix for a network. In order to do this, I need to sum down the column (the out degree), and then divide the column by the out degree in order to normalize it.
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Dynamic List Building and Exporting [closed]
My ultimate goal is to have a text file that contains the following information in the following format exported to a text file:
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Matrix Determinant
I have an N by N (N>3) matrix generated from fortran. I would like to find determinant of that matrix using mathematica? I could do this for a 3 by 3 matrix. I can also import the fortran output file ...
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Sorting a matrix alphanumerically
Somewhat related to Sort matrix by columns and rows without changing them, but more general.
I'd like to sort a square matrix (a 3 by 3 in my case, but surely the general solution will treat any), ...
