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Real matrices whose columns have equal modulus coordinates

Combinatorics 2023-03-23 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We study m×nm \times n matrices whose columns are of the form {(a1j,,anj):a1j=λj, aij=±λj , λj>0, j=1,2,,n}.\{(a_{1j},\ldots, a_{nj}): \quad a_{1j} = \lambda_j,\ a_{ij} = \pm\lambda_j\ , \ \lambda_j >0 ,\ j=1,2,\ldots,n\}. We explicitly construct for all a=(a1,,am(m1)2)Rm(m1)2a = (a_1,\ldots, a_{\frac{m(m- 1)}{2}}) \in \mathbb{R}^{\frac{m(m-1)}{2}} a matrix of the above form whose rows have pairwise dot product equal to aa. Using Hardamard matrices constructed by Sylvester we classify all matrices of the above form whose rows have pairwise dot product equal to aa. We also use our results to reformulate the Hadamard conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2303.12713,
  title  = {Real matrices whose columns have equal modulus coordinates},
  author = {Sara Botelho-Andrade and Peter G. Casazza and Desai Cheng and Tin Tran and Janet Tremain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12713},
  year   = {2023}
}