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Jacobi Rotation Matrix

A Matrix used in the Jacobi Transformation method of diagonalizing Matrices. It contains $\cos\phi$ in $p$ rows and columns and $\sin\phi$ in $q$ rows and columns,

\begin{displaymath}
P_{pq} \equiv \left[{\matrix{
1 & & & & & & & & 0\cr
& \ddot...
...& & \vdots & & & \ddots & \cr
0 & & & & & & & & 1\cr}}\right].
\end{displaymath}

See also Jacobi Transformation


References

Press, W. H.; Flannery, B. P.; Teukolsky, S. A.; and Vetterling, W. T. ``Jacobi Transformation of a Symmetric Matrix.'' §11.1 in Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 456-462, 1992.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25