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Can I write a matrix as a sum of symmetric and a skew symmetric matrix if it is not a square
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Short answer - Yes.

Explaination - Let the square matrix be A.

A = 0.5(A + A') + 0.5(A − A').

Here we can observe that 0.5(A + A') is a symmetric matrix and 0.5(A − A') is a skew
symmetric matrix.

Note: Symmetry or skew symmetry can be defined only for square matrices as A = A' can
never hold in case of non-square matrices.
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2. They have the same elements correspondingly.

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Related If A is a square matrix, then is A+A symmetric?

If A is a square matrix then we can write it as the sum of symmetric and skew symmetric
matrix.

A=(A+A') /2+(A-A') /2 ------------(1)

Now given A is a Square matrix,then A+A is also a square matrix.

We need to show that A+A is symmetric, that means A+A=A'+A'

=2A=2A'

=A=A'

Now, putting A=A', at equation (1)

A=A, which is true

So A+A is symmetric, when A is a square matrix. Hence proved.

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Yes of course it can be.

Any square matrix, A can be expressed as:

A = ((A+Ā)/2) + ((A-Ā)/2)

Where, Ā is the transpose of matrix A

In the expression, the first term, i.e., ((A+Ā)/2) is the symmetric matrix and the second term,
i.e., ((A-Ā)/2) is the skew symmetric matrix.

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A skew-symmetric matrix M satisfies

T
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Thus

T n
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where n is the dimension of M . Also det(M

T
) = det(M ) , so we have

n
det(M ) (1 − (−1) ) = 0.

Thus, either det(M ) = 0 , or (−1)n = 1 . In other words, the determinant of a skew-

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