Re: Extract any diagonal from a square matrix...
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- Subject: [mg66298] Re: Extract any diagonal from a square matrix...
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 00:46:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 5/6/06 at 11:50 PM, rson at new.rr.com (hawkmoon269) wrote: >Trying to put a function together that extracts any one of the >diagonals from a square matrix. Right now I have this -- >DiagonalT[a_List, d_Integer] := >Tr[Take[Which[Positive[d], a, Negative[d], Transpose[a]], {1, >Length[a] - Abs[d] + 1}, {Abs[d], Length[a]}], List] >This works, but I thought there might be something less cumbersome. >Essentially, the function constructs a submatrix of the matrix so >that the requested diagonal from the matrix becomes the main >diagonal of the submatrix, which is then retrieved. D is the >diagonal to retrieve, where d = >3 -- 2nd superdiagonal >2 -- 1st superdiagonal >1 -- main diagonal >-2 -- 1st subdiagonal >-3 -- 2nd subdiagonal Another possible approach would be to use SparseArray. For example, the 1st superdiagonal can be obtained as follows: In[21]:= a=Table[10i +j,{i,4},{j,4}]; b=SparseArray[{i_,j_}:>1/;j==i+1,{4,4}]; SparseArray[a b]/.SparseArray[_,_,_,a_]:>Last@a Out[23]= {12,23,34} This can be generalized to extract an arbitrary diagonal by changing b to be b=SparseArray[{i_,j_}:>1/;j==i+d] where d= 2 -- 2nd superdiagonal 1 -- 1st superdiagonal 0 -- main diagonal -1 -- 1st subdiagonal -2 -- 2nd subdiagonal -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four
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