Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Some Math problems Message-ID: <5508@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 21:15:52 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5508 Posted: Mon Oct 29 21:15:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 02:49:26 EST References: dartvax.2503, <689@ihuxt.UUCP> <1493@browngr.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 > Q E Qt > > This method also works for non-symmetric matrices, if they have > all positive eigenvalues, and all are real, but you must use > Q inverse rather than Q transpose (alas). In the original query, the matrix was orthogonal, so its inverse WAS its transpose.