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  • Subject: [mg8977] TensorRank
  • From: Julian Stoev <stoev at SPAM-RE-MO-VER-usa.net>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 03:35:24 -0400
  • Organization: Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear Group,
I am not 100% sure, but I am using TensorRank as a function to determine a
rank of a matrix. 
The  folowing result is surprising for me.
The determinant<>0, but rank is defficient.
Am I wrong to use TensorRank in this way?
Thank you!


In[1]:=
cm={{0, 0, 0, 1/j}, {0, 0, -(1/j), 0}, {0, k/(i*j), 0, -(k/j^2)},
     {-(k/(i*j)), 0,
 k/j^2, 0}}
TensorRank[cm]
Det[cm]
Out[1]=
           1            1            k        k         k       k
{{0, 0, 0, -}, {0, 0, -(-), 0}, {0, ---, 0, -(--)}, {-(---), 0, --, 0}}
           j            j           i j        2       i j       2
                                              j                 j
Out[2]=
2
Out[3]=
  2
 k
-----
 2  4
i  j
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