What is Hamiltonian matrix: Definition and 26 Discussions

In mathematics, a Hamiltonian matrix is a 2n-by-2n matrix A such that JA is symmetric, where J is the skew-symmetric matrix




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{\displaystyle J={\begin{bmatrix}0&I_{n}\\-I_{n}&0\\\end{bmatrix}}}
and In is the n-by-n identity matrix. In other words, A is Hamiltonian if and only if (JA)T = JA where ()T denotes the transpose.

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