Re: Difference between x' and x.' ?

[David Bateman]

Chethan Bandi wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 20:11, David Bateman wrote:
>   
>> Kim Hansen wrote:
>>     
>>> I can not figure out what the difference should be between x' and x.'
>>>
>>> Can someone give me a hint ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>       
>> x' and x.' are transpose for real x, x' is hermitian and x.' is
>> transpose for complex x..
>>
>> D.
>>     
>
> x' gives you complex conjugate transpose of a matrix where as x.' gives you 
> only transpose of a matrix. you can observe this only for complex matrices.
> For real matrices both x' and x.' gives you same results.
>   

"Hermitian" == "Complex Conjugate Transpose" ...

D.



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