Questions on the manipulation of matrices in Mathematica.

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Can RowReduce work in this matrix?

The matrix $Q$ with dimensions $n\times2*n*m$ is structured by $$Q=[B|AB|\cdots|A^{2*n-1}B]$$ where $Q$ is an augmented matrix built from a $3\times3$ matrix, $A$, and a $3\times2$ matrix, $B$. I ...
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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), ...
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Inverse of a large sparse Hermitian block matrix

I am looking for a method (if it exists) for the inverse of a large sparse Hermitian block matrix. The off diagonal sparse matrices, named δ are 4x4, and they have ...
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MMA implementation of Earth Movers Distance?

Has anyone implemented in MMA the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD)? A concept dating back to Monge 1871, used to compare histograms and images, e.g., the CIEDE2000 Color Difference algorithm. Yossi ...
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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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How to accelerate updating some parts of sparse matrices?

I am trying to update some parts of an specific matrix as rapidly as possible. In what follows, I first set up the basics things that I want to use ...
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Mathematica Complains about Non Symmetric Covariance matrix, when it's not the case

I was doing some fitting with Mathematica7 using NonlinearModelFit. It's quite long the program to do the fit and that's why I am not displaying here ... It goes ok, and I can get the fit parameters ...
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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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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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Matrix algebra vs. PrincipalComponents and Varimax/Oblimin

Using matrix algebra I can calculate loadings and scores from the covariance matrix (data matrix is column centered): ...
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Can mathematica simplify an expression setting simplified answer equal to zero?

Basically I want to reduce something like: Subscript[P, 4] - Subscript[P, 5] == Subscript[R, 4, 5]* Subscript[i, 4, 5] when only one of them is known (...
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How to obtain the Cosine symbolic Matrix of EulerAngles

Here in X-convention Extrinsic ...
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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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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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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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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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How Simplify and Assume can be combined on matrix products?

What I am trying to do is to simplify some expressions involving matrices! The problem is that Simplify[] considers the simplifications based on alphabetical order and everything is Commutative. For ...