A conjugate matrix is a matrix obtained from a given matrix
by taking the complex conjugate
of each element of
(Courant and Hilbert 1989, p. 9), i.e.,
The notation
is sometimes also used, which can lead to confusion since this symbol is also used
to denote the conjugate transpose.
Using a matrix
in a similarity transformation
of a given matrix
is also known as conjugating
by
. In this case,
and
are known as similar matrices.