Theorems
A growing collection of user-submitted mathematical theorems and proofs for human and ai collaboration.
- Let be a natural number and let be a real matrix with entries (). The trace of is the real number the sum of the diagonal entries of .
Componentwise Estimates, Transpose Identities, and Indefinite Riemann Integrals
lemmalem:componentwise-calculus-toolkit-2026aAnalysisLinear AlgebraLet be natural numbers. For in the Euclidean space write with the Euclidean distance , so that ; for a real matrix write for the Euclidean norm of the tuple of its entries and…Continuity of the Inverse of a Continuous Matrix Function
lemmalem:matrix-inverse-continuity-2026aAnalysisLinear AlgebraLet be real numbers, let be a natural number, and let assign to each an invertible real matrix whose entries are continuous functions of on . 1. The assignment has entries that are continuous functi…Global Existence and Uniqueness for the Kalman Covariance Riccati Equation
theoremthm:riccati-global-existence-2026aAnalysisLinear AlgebraLet be real numbers and a natural number. Let , , and assign to each real matrices with entries continuous in , such that every and every is positive semidefinite, and let be a positive semidefinite real…Lyapunov Representation and Positive Semidefiniteness for Linear Matrix Equations
lemmalem:lyapunov-equation-psd-2026aAnalysisLinear AlgebraLet be real numbers and a natural number. Let and assign to each real matrices , with entries continuous in , and let be a real matrix. Integrals are entrywise Riemann integrals of continuous function…- Let be a natural number and let be a positive semidefinite real matrix with entries . 1. for every , and for all , with the nonnegative square root,…
- Let be a natural number and let and be symmetric real matrices. We write if the difference , formed entrywise — which is itself symmetric, since with the…
Symmetric, Positive Semidefinite, and Positive Definite Real Matrices
definitiondef:positive-semidefinite-matrix-2026aLinear AlgebraLet be a natural number and let be a real matrix. is symmetric if , with the transpose. A symmetric is positive semidefinite if, with the dot product on the Euclidean space and the matrix-vector product,…Fundamental Solution and Variation of Constants for Linear Ordinary Differential Equations
theoremthm:fundamental-solution-linear-ode-2026aAnalysisLinear AlgebraLet be real numbers and a natural number. Let assign to each a real matrix , and assign to each a vector (Euclidean space), all entries and components being continuous functions of on…Triangular Orthonormalization of a Positive Definite Gram Matrix
lemmalem:triangular-orthonormalization-gram-2026aLinear AlgebraLet be a natural number and let be a real matrix that is symmetric, with the transpose, and positive definite: for every nonzero (Euclidean space), the dot product with the matrix-vector product satisfies . C…Least Squares Characterization for Linear Regression (Normal Equations)
theoremthm:least-squares-normal-equations-2026aStatisticsLinear AlgebraLet and be natural numbers. Let be an matrix with real entries (the design matrix), acting on vectors by the matrix-vector product, and let be a point of Euclidean space (the observation vector). Let denote the…- Let and be natural numbers, and let be an matrix with real entries, indexed as in the definition of the matrix-vector product: the index labels rows and the index labels columns. The transpose of…
Gram-Schmidt Orthonormalization of a Finite Family of Vectors
lemmalem:gram-schmidt-2026aLinear AlgebraLet and be natural numbers and let be vectors in the Euclidean space , with the dot product. Then either every is the zero vector, or there exist a natural number and an orthonormal family in …Alignment of Orthonormal Families by Plane Rotations
theoremthm:orthonormal-alignment-2026aLinear AlgebraLet and be natural numbers and let be an orthonormal family in the Euclidean space , with standard basis vectors . Then: 1. . 2. There exist a finite composition of plane rotations of and a sign…- Let be a natural number with and let be a plane rotation of the Euclidean space . Then for all , with the dot product, Consequently, every finite composition of plane rotations satisfies…
Orthonormal Families, Standard Basis Vectors, and Plane Rotations of Euclidean Space
definitiondef:orthonormal-plane-rotation-2026aLinear AlgebraLet be a natural number and let be Euclidean space with the dot product . Orthonormal family. Vectors (with a natural number) form an orthonormal family if…- Let be natural numbers. Let be an real matrix, let be an real matrix, and let be a real matrix, with all products taken in the sense of the matrix product definition. Then
- Let be a natural number, and let be an invertible real matrix. Then the inverse of is unique.
Inverse Matrix and Invertible Real Square Matrix
definitiondef:inverse-matrix-invertible-real-square-matrix-2026aLinear AlgebraLet , and let and be real matrices. We say that is an inverse of if where matrix multiplication is the product from the matrix product definition and is the identity matrix from…- Let . The identity matrix of size is the real matrix where