creating a symbolic square symmetric matrix
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- Subject: [mg66321] creating a symbolic square symmetric matrix
- From: "ravi" <rv15i at yahoo.se>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 02:35:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, First, I created a square matrix with the following command : n=4; mat=Table[Subscript[a,i, j],{i,n},{j,n}] In the same style, I would like to create a symmetric matric where all a[i, j] is replaced by a[j,i] for i>j. For i<=j, the coefficients remain in place. I tried to use the replace command : Replace[mat,Subscript[a,i,j]->Subscript[a,j,i]] This just interchanged the elements. I want this replacement only for the lower or upper triangular matrix elements. Would appreciate tips of doing a conditional substitution. /ravi