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This paper shows how to obtain a simple closed form for the elements of a triangular matrix raised to the nth power.
We derive a closed-form expression for the kth power of semicirculant matrices by using the determinant of certain matrices. As an application, a closed-form expression for the kth power of r-circulant matrices is also povided.
We present a formula for the trace of any symmetric power of a $n\times n$ matrix (with coefficients in a field) in terms of the ordinary powers of the matrix, an arbitrarily chosen linear function which vanishes on the identity matrix, and…
In this work, new closed-form formulas for the matrix exponential are provided. Our method is direct and elementary, it gives tractable and manageable formulas not current in the extensive literature on this essential subject. Moreover,…
This contribution is motivated by old and recent works on matrix powers and their applications on combinatorial sequences. We give in this paper the $s$-th powers and the inverses for special upper triangular matrices and the $s$-th powers…
In this note, simple proofs of certain well-known results involving the positive square root of positive matrices are given.
We present an explicit formula of the powers for the $2\times 2$ quantum matrices, that is a natural quantum analogue of the powers of the usual $2\times 2$ matrices. As applications, we give some non-commutative relations of the entries of…
We present here a large collection of harmonic and quadratic harmonic sums, that can be useful in applied questions, e.g., probabilistic ones. We find closed-form formulae, that we were not able to locate in the literature.
We give some new canonical representations for forms over $\cc$. For example, a general binary quartic form can be written as the square of a quadratic form plus the fourth power of a linear form. A general cubic form in $(x_1,...,x_n)$ can…
We consider generalized quadratic forms over real quadratic number fields and prove, under a natural positive-definiteness condition, that a generalized quadratic form can only be universal if it contains a quadratic subform that is…
We give a short constructive proof for the existence and uniqueness of the rational normal form of a quadratic matrix.
Matrices over the ring of formal power series are considered. Normal forms with respect to various sub-groups of the two-sided transformations are constructed. The construction is based on the special property of the action: it induces a…
The article presents a generalization of Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury (SMW) formula for the inversion of a matrix of the form A+sum(U)k)*V(k),k=1..N).
We prove a universal identity for powers of elements in quadratic algebras, expressing x^m in terms of x and the identity. As a consequence, we obtain a general formula for powers of 2x2 matrices depending only on trace and determinant.…
A new class of structured matrices is presented and a closed form formula for their determinant is established. This formula has strong connections with the one for Vandermonde matrices.
Matrices are very popular and widely used in mathematics and other fields of science. Every mathematician has known the properties of finite-sized matrices since the time of study. In this paper, we consider the basic theory of infnite…
In this article we obtain a general polynomial identity in $k$ variables, where $k\geq 2$ is an arbitrary positive integer. We use this identity to give a closed-form expression for the entries of the powers of a $k \times k$ matrix.…
Permutations can be represented as linear combinations of natural numbers with different powers. In this paper, its coefficient matrix and inverse matrix is derived, and the results show the coefficient matrix is a lower triangular matrix…
Quadratic forms over Z that represent all positive integers are called universal. Starting with Ramanujan, 54 universal quaternary quadratic forms without cross product terms were discovered. The form that is the sum of four squares was…
Which matrices can be written as sums or products of square-zero matrices? This question is the central premise of this dissertation. Over the past 25 years a significant body of research on products and linear combinations of square-zero…