Is There a Standard Notation for Matrix Rows and Columns?

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Is there notation to denote the i-th row of a Matrix or j-th column?
 
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For example in a proof I would like to say:

[itex]\exists i[/itex] such that the i-th column of A = the j-th row of B, basically I'm looking for the notation of i-th column, and j-th row.
 
I sometimes use the notation [itex]A_{\bullet i}[/itex] to denote the i-th column and [itex]A_{j\bullet}[/itex] to denote the j-th row.
 
Is there a standard for notation?
 
Is there a standard for notation?
No - as the wikipedia article (see link above) points out there is no standard (i.e. ISO standard) notation. Some journals may specify a particular form in their style guides. afaik the main ISO standard for matrix notation specifies bold-face (poss bf-italics).

Per your example: one would most commonly write something like:$$\mathbf{A},\mathbf{B}\in \mathbb{M}_{m\times n}; a_{i,j}\in \mathbf{A}, b_{i,j}\in \mathbf{B}: a_{i,*}=b_{*,i}$$... and be fairly confident of being understood to mean that the ith row of A is the same as the ith column of B (pretty much the transpose but a fair example and you can have different functions of the row/column numbers.)