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A note on an unusual type of polar decomposition (English)
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9 June 2008
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Let \(A\) be a complex square matrix. The authors show that \(A = SU\), where \(S\) is a complex symmetric matrix and \(U\) is a unitary matrix. The factor \(S\) can be chosen in infinitely many ways. They use this factorization to give a characterization of conjugate-normal matrices.
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polar decomposition
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symmetric matrices
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unitary matrices
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unitary congruence
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concommutativity
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factorization
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conjugate-normal matrices
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