Re: Solving matrix equation
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- Subject: [mg53840] Re: Solving matrix equation
- From: gabyz at ee.bgu.ac.il (Gaby)
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:02:48 -0500 (EST)
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On 20 Apr 1999 00:48:05 -0400, Oldfield So wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I need to solve a equation in the following format:
>
> M A = A
>
>where M is a rectangular matrix, A is a column vector. By using
Solve[],
>the following "error" is obtained:
>
>RowReduce::luc:
> Result for RowReduce of badly conditioned matrix {<<12>>}
> may contain significant numerical errors.
>
>I would like to know is there any standard way to solve it? Thanks a
lot.
>
>Best Regards,
>Oldfield So
>--
>Oldfield K.Y. SO | kysoNOspam at cse.cuhk.eduDOThk | <a
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Yes\
There is a usual way to solve it:
I suggest you first reaquinte yourself with eigenvalues and eigen
vectors theory.
M*x=s*x
where "s" is an eigenvalue, and "x" is an eigenvector (if A is
rectangular then your eigne values are the values in the main
diagonal)
since M is invertable you have N (the dimension of M) solutions of
that are:
M*(sqrt(s)*x) = (sqrt(s)*x)
Gaby