Persymmetric matrix

In mathematics, persymmetric matrix may refer to:

a square matrix which is symmetric with respect to the northeast-to-southwest diagonal (anti-diagonal); or
a square matrix such that the values on each line perpendicular to the main diagonal are the same for a given line.

The first definition is the most common in the recent literature. The designation "Hankel matrix" is often used for matrices satisfying the property in the second definition.

Definition 1

Symmetry pattern of a persymmetric 5 × 5 matrix

Let $A = (a ij)$ be an $n \times n$ matrix. The first definition of persymmetric requires that $a_{ij}=a_{n-j+1,\,n-i+1}$ for all $i, j$ .^[1] For example, 5 × 5 persymmetric matrices are of the form $A={\begin{bmatrix}a_{11}&a_{12}&a_{13}&a_{14}&a_{15}\\a_{21}&a_{22}&a_{23}&a_{24}&a_{14}\\a_{31}&a_{32}&a_{33}&a_{23}&a_{13}\\a_{41}&a_{42}&a_{32}&a_{22}&a_{12}\\a_{51}&a_{41}&a_{31}&a_{21}&a_{11}\end{bmatrix}}.$

This can be equivalently expressed as $AJ = JA T$ where $J$ is the exchange matrix.

A third way to express this is seen by post-multiplying $AJ = JA T$ with $J$ on both sides, showing that $A T$ rotated 180 degrees is identical to $A$ : $A=JA^{\mathsf {T}}J.$

A symmetric matrix is a matrix whose values are symmetric in the northwest-to-southeast diagonal. If a symmetric matrix is rotated by 90°, it becomes a persymmetric matrix. Symmetric persymmetric matrices are sometimes called bisymmetric matrices.

Definition 2

The second definition is due to Thomas Muir.^[2] It says that the square matrix A = (a_ij) is persymmetric if a_ij depends only on i + j. Persymmetric matrices in this sense, or Hankel matrices as they are often called, are of the form $A={\begin{bmatrix}r_{1}&r_{2}&r_{3}&\cdots &r_{n}\\r_{2}&r_{3}&r_{4}&\cdots &r_{n+1}\\r_{3}&r_{4}&r_{5}&\cdots &r_{n+2}\\\vdots &\vdots &\vdots &\ddots &\vdots \\r_{n}&r_{n+1}&r_{n+2}&\cdots &r_{2n-1}\end{bmatrix}}.$ A persymmetric determinant is the determinant of a persymmetric matrix.^[2]

A matrix for which the values on each line parallel to the main diagonal are constant is called a Toeplitz matrix.

References

^ Golub, Gene H.; Van Loan, Charles F. (1996), Matrix Computations (3rd ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, ISBN 978-0-8018-5414-9. See page 193.
^ ^a ^b Muir, Thomas; Metzler, William H. (2003) [1933], Treatise on the Theory of Determinants, Dover Press, p. 419, ISBN 978-0-486-49553-8, OCLC 52203124

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[1] Golub, Gene H.; Van Loan, Charles F. (1996), Matrix Computations (3rd ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, ISBN 978-0-8018-5414-9. See page 193.

[muir-2] Muir, Thomas; Metzler, William H. (2003) [1933], Treatise on the Theory of Determinants, Dover Press, p. 419, ISBN 978-0-486-49553-8, OCLC 52203124

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Persymmetric matrix

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Definition 1

Definition 2

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