matrices of special form
The aim of the present entry is to list matrices with special properties.
Restriction on form
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diagonal matrices
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anti-diagonal matrices
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triangular matrices
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block matrices
of either form above or of some other form
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nilpotent matrices
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elementary matrices
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Hadamard matrices
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partly decomposable matrices
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fully indecomposable matrices
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nearly decomposable matrices
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doubly stochastic matrices
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stochastic matrices
In numerical applications, sparse matrices (matrices with few nonzero entries) are important; these can be of any of the forms above.
Other restrictions
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singular matrices
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: invertible matrices
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: unitary matrices
with determinant
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: orthogonal matrices
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:orthogonal matrices with determinant (http://planetmath.org/RotationMatrix)
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normal matrices
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positive definite matrices
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symmetric matrices
, antisymmetric matrices, Hermitian matrices
, anti-Hermitian matrices
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: symplectic matrices (also called )
Special matrices
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zero matrix
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identity matrix
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Hilbert matrix
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Vandermonde matrix
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Toeplitz matrix
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Pascal matrix
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Cauchy matrix
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M-matrix
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magic square
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Latin square