[Numpy-discussion] Question about complex variables

[Paulo J. S. Silva]

Karthik,

You are making a common mistake. In Mathematics, the "transpose" of a
matrix is just the matrix with the axis transposed like numarray/numeric
does. What you called transpose is actually the "adjoint" or "conjugate
transpose" of a matrix. Actually, this last operation (the adjoint) is
the most interesting one in Linear Algebra/Functional Analysis. For more
details take a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_transpose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpose

In the reals both operations coincide, thus the confusion. This is the
reason why matlab can use the same symbol for both operations.

Now, enough Mathematics, let's go to numarray. To get the adjoint of a
matrix A in numarray, you can simply do:

conjugate(transpose(A))

If you want, you may define a function named adjoint to perform the
above operations. 

Note that this creates a new matrix, not only a new view of the original
matrix like "transpose" function in numarray. 

Hope it helps,

Paulo
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Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil

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