Symmetric or skew symmetric?
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- A′ = A
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- Symmetric
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- Entry (i,j) equals entry (j,i)
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- Symmetric
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- A′ = −A
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- Skew symmetric
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- Entry (i,j) is the negative of entry (j,i)
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- Skew symmetric
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- Symmetric
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- Skew symmetric
One condition is A′ = A, the other A′ = −A, and the chapter notes every square matrix splits into a sum of the two. Source: syllabus Maths Part I, Ch 3 Matrices.