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Sat Nov 12 03:05:36 PST 2022

websearch result: "If inverse of the matrix is equal to its transpose,
then it is an orthogonal matrix"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_matrix

> In linear algebra, an orthogonal matrix, or orthonormal matrix, is a real square matrix whose columns and rows are orthonormal vectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_matrix#Properties

> A real square matrix is orthogonal if and only if its columns form an orthonormal basis of the Euclidean space Rn with the ordinary Euclidean dot product, which is the case if and only if its rows form an orthonormal basis of Rn.

I infer the rows and columns must all be at 90 degree angles to each other.
In the complex domain, where each value is itself a 2-vector, that's a
little confusing. I'm considering thinking of these orthonormal
vectors as being planes, which are perpendicular to each other in
4-dimensional space, but maybe it will be clearer if I look straight
at the numbers, maybe later.

Anyway, with the idempotent transforms it makes sense the vectors are
orthogonal and define a coordinate space.

The article says that all orthonormal matrices can be shuffled so as
to be a diagonal of 2x2 rotation matrices, with an extra 1 on the
diagonal if the row and column count is odd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthonormality
> two vectors in an inner product space are orthonormal if they are orthogonal (or perpendicular along a line) unit vectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_matrix#Overview

> Orthogonal matrices preserve the dot product,[1] so, for vectors u and v in an n-dimensional real Euclidean space u dot v = (Qu) dot (Qv) where Q is an orthogonal matrix.

This implies the dot product of values in frequency and time space are
off only by a constant factor.

>>> np.dot(v,v)
1.198167136558938
>>> np.dot(v at mat/2**.5, v at mat/2**.5)
(1.1981671365589377+1.1083248738116542e-17j)

The angle between values is the same.
This makes sense, since everything is simply in a different coordinate basis.

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https://math.stackexchange.com/a/835837

> Every real Householder reflection matrix is a symmetric orthogonal matrix, but its entries can be quite arbitrary.

> In general, if $A$ is symmetric, it is orthogonally diagonalisable and all its eigenvalues are real. If it is also orthogonal, its eigenvalues must be 1 or -1. It follows that every symmetric orthogonal matrix is of the form $QDQ^\top$, where $Q$ is a real orthogonal matrix and $D$ is a diagonal matrix whose diagonal entries are 1 or -1.

> In more geometric terms, such a matrix is an orthogonal reflection through a subspace. I.e., if $A$ is symmetric and orthogonal, then $P:=\frac12(A+I)$ is an orthogonal projection, and $A=2P-I$ is the reflection through the image of $P$.

not immediately sure what all that math syntax represents. browser
renders it if i turn on javascript from cloudflare.com or such.

> if A is symmetric and orthogonal, then P := 1/2 (A+I) is an orthogonal projection, and A = 2P−I is the reflection through the image of P.

> You can construct orthogonal and symmetric matrices using a nice parametrization from Sanyal [1] and Mortari [2].

> One can construct such a matrix with a choice of n orthogonal vectors {r_k}k=1..n and the desired number of positive eigenvalues p∈[0,n]
> R=∑k=1..p (r_k * rT_k) − ∑k=p+1..n (r_k * rT_k)
> They also point out that
> > if p=n, then R=I whereas if p=0, then R=−I.

I think it's stated a couple different ways that a symmetric
orthonormal matrix is a statement of N orthogonal vectors and a
selection of p which are positive, the rest of which are negative. I
don't know why positive/negative is separated out, instead of just
saying it is N signed orthogonal vectors.

I tried this with my "v" vector and a perpendicular vector
(v[1],-v[0]), but i may not have been quite sure what i was doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Householder_transformation

> a Householder transformation (also known as a Householder reflection or elementary reflector) is a linear transformation that describes a reflection about a plane or hyperplane containing the origin.

householder matrices are defined in terms of the outer product of a
normal vector with its conjugate (doubled and subtracted from the
identity matrix)

there is a lot that can be learned here!

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I want to think more about the construction of the matrix from time
points along sinusoids.

>>> np.fft.fftfreq(2)
array([ 0. , -0.5])
>>> freqs = np.fft.fftfreq(2)
>>> mat = np.exp(np.outer(np.array([0,1]), 2j * np.pi * freqs))
>>> mat
array([[ 1.+0.0000000e+00j,  1.-0.0000000e+00j],
[ 1.+0.0000000e+00j, -1.-1.2246468e-16j]])

Each complex sinusoid is a spiral in the complex plane over time, from
0 to ....?
The first row and first column evaluate this spiral at time point 0.
The second row and second column evaluate this spiral at time point 1.
There's only one spiral in the above example, since one of the
frequencies is 0.

Spiral defined by sin_or_cos(t * -0.5 * 2pi) ... so when t is +-2, it
has cycled.
The spiral goes from 0 to -2. evaluating it at 1.0 evaluates its
negative 180 degree point, which should be -1.

>>> mat.real
array([[ 1.,  1.],
[ 1., -1.]])

right, okay i guess.

regarding the columns and rows, one of them represents moving along
the selected time points (0.0, 1.0); the other represents moving along
the selected frequencies (0.0, -0.5) .

One could normalise these to make them more equivalent:
>>> mat = np.exp(np.outer(np.array([0,1])/2**.5, 2j * np.pi * freqs*2**.5))
>>> mat
array([[ 1.+0.0000000e+00j,  1.+0.0000000e+00j],
[ 1.+0.0000000e+00j, -1.-5.6655389e-16j]])

>>> np.array([0,1])/2**.5
array([0.        , 0.70710678])
>>> np.fft.fftfreq(2)*2**.5
array([ 0.        , -0.70710678])

I don't know what that would mean at higher N's, though. just
something notable here. Thinking of how the length of these vcetors is
all sqrt(N).

back to [0,1] and [0,-.5] .

Two sinusoid spirals. A matrix made from them. The matrix contains
orthonormal vectors.

When I was trying funny offsets, I was probably constructing a matrix
that did not contain orthonormal vectors.

>>> np.exp(np.outer(np.array([0.125,1.25]), 2j * np.pi * freqs))
array([[ 1.        +0.j        ,  0.92387953-0.38268343j],
[ 1.        +0.j        , -0.70710678+0.70710678j]])

Here I evaluate the spirals at 0.125 and 1.25 . I'm imagining that the
data is viewed stretched and offset by 1/8th of a sample. Maybe
keeping it pinned to zero would be more clear:

>>> np.exp(np.outer(np.array([0,1.125]), 2j * np.pi * freqs))
array([[ 1.        +0.j        ,  1.        -0.j        ],
[ 1.        +0.j        , -0.92387953+0.38268343j]])

>>> v @ mat @ mat.T / 2
array([0.74880538+0.15820088j, 0.73301797-0.15506057j])
>>> v
array([0.71733727, 0.82679766])

The matrix's transpose is no longer its inverse. It doesn't contain
orthonormal vectors.

>>> np.dot(mat[0], mat[1])
(0.07612046748871315+0.38268343236508967j)
>>> abs(np.dot(mat[0], mat[1])) * 180 / np.pi
22.355704150744625

Maybe they're offset by 22 degrees; I'm not sure what's meant by a
complex angle.

Normally, the dot product is 0:

>>> mat=np.exp(np.outer(np.array([0,1]), 2j * np.pi * freqs))
>>> np.dot(mat[0], mat[1])
-1.2246467991473532e-16j

Something that's notable about a matrix that isn't orthonormal and
symmetric is that it still has an inverse.

>>> v @ mat @ np.linalg.inv(mat)
array([0.71733727+0.j, 0.82679766+0.j])
>>> v
array([0.71733727, 0.82679766])

So, the resulting "spectrum" can still technically be used to recover
the original data, by precisely undoing the wonky transformation it
performed.

0602

I'm thinking of the meaning of applying the wonky transformation
matrix from the weird points of frequency evaluation, and I'm guessing
that it might still be a spectrum that is output. Not certain ...

I'll try with very clear data.

>>> def signal(x):
...     return np.exp(2j * np.pi * x * 0.5)
...
>>> signal(0)
(1+0j)
>>> signal(1)
(-1+1.2246467991473532e-16j)
>>> signal(0.5)
(6.123233995736766e-17+1j)

signal() is now a sinusoid precisely aligned with the fourier algorithm.

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