Matrix of ones
In mathematics, a matrix of ones or all-ones matrix is a matrix where every element is equal to one.[1] Examples of standard notation are given below:
Some sources call the all-ones matrix the unit matrix,[2] but that term may also refer to the identity matrix, a different matrix.
Properties[edit]
For an n × n matrix of ones J, the following properties hold:
- The trace of J is n,[3] and the determinant is 1 if n is 1, or 0 otherwise.
- The characteristic polynomial of J is .
- The rank of J is 1 and the eigenvalues are n with multiplicity 1 and 0 with multiplicity n − 1.[4]
- for [5]
- J is the neutral element of the Hadamard product.[6]
When J is considered as a matrix over the real numbers, the following additional properties hold:
- J is positive semi-definite matrix.
- The matrix is idempotent.[5]
- The matrix exponential of J is
Applications[edit]
The all-ones matrix arises in the mathematical field of combinatorics, particularly involving the application of algebraic methods to graph theory. For example, if A is the adjacency matrix of a n-vertex undirected graph G, and J is the all-ones matrix of the same dimension, then G is a regular graph if and only if AJ = JA.[7] As a second example, the matrix appears in some linear-algebraic proofs of Cayley's formula, which gives the number of spanning trees of a complete graph, using the matrix tree theorem.
References[edit]
- ^ Horn, Roger A.; Johnson, Charles R. (2012), "0.2.8 The all-ones matrix and vector", Matrix Analysis, Cambridge University Press, p. 8, ISBN 9780521839402.
- ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Unit Matrix". MathWorld.
- ^ Stanley, Richard P. (2013), Algebraic Combinatorics: Walks, Trees, Tableaux, and More, Springer, Lemma 1.4, p. 4, ISBN 9781461469988.
- ^ Stanley (2013); Horn & Johnson (2012), p. 65.
- ^ a b Timm, Neil H. (2002), Applied Multivariate Analysis, Springer texts in statistics, Springer, p. 30, ISBN 9780387227719.
- ^ Smith, Jonathan D. H. (2011), Introduction to Abstract Algebra, CRC Press, p. 77, ISBN 9781420063721.
- ^ Godsil, Chris (1993), Algebraic Combinatorics, CRC Press, Lemma 4.1, p. 25, ISBN 9780412041310.
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