From: unbewusst.sein@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Une_B=E9v?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ue?=) Date: 2007-11-23T02:35:01+09:00 Subject: Re: eigenvector discrepency was (Re: [Matrix] eigenvalues, eigenvectors in Ruby ???) Axel Etzold wrote: > > Yes, but that's not what I meant, as you can have different vectors > mapped to the same vector under a matrix mapping. > You'd have to check, whether, for a matrix m, the following holds: > > for each v that is an eigenvector to m, and each corresponding eigenvalue > c (vectors and numbers as delivered by the software), > > m*v=c*v . i did verify that, that' OK for two different matrices (a and b). however those two matrices are different within a permutation which normally (OK with GSL) i could find the permutation matrix p such that : p * a * p^(-1) = b this permutation matrix being computed by comparing an eigenvector of a with the corresponding of b (same values different order) which i kind find in case of ExtendMatrix... -- Une B�vue