The Set of Symmetric Real Matrices is a Metric Space

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Reason: First publication. The distance between symmetric real matrices satisfies the four metric axioms, so the set of symmetric real n x n matrices is a metric space. Proved from the properties of the matrix norm and entrywise field arithmetic only.

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Let $n\ge1$ be a natural number, let $\mathcal{S}(n)$ be the set of symmetric real $n\times n$ matrices, and let $d_{\mathcal{S}(n)}$ be the distance between symmetric real matrices.

Then $d_{\mathcal{S}(n)}$ is a metric on $\mathcal{S}(n)$ , so that $\bigl(\mathcal{S}(n),d_{\mathcal{S}(n)}\bigr)$ is a metric space.

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