What is the difference between these two operations?

zheng89120 · Dec 9, 2011

In first year, I learned that PAP^-1 = D.

Now, I am learning that S⁺AS = A^(v).

(where the + sign is a dagger)

It seems like both of these operations diagonalizes the matrix A, but doesn't feel like they are the same thing, unless they are the same thing.

micromass · Dec 9, 2011

What is the context?? What is A in the first and the second??

I bet that A in the second case is only allowed to be hermitian, while the first case is more general.

What is the difference between these two operations?

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