A transpose of a doubly indexed object is the object obtained by replacing all elements with . For a second-tensor rank tensor , the tensor transpose is simply . The matrix transpose, most commonly written , is the matrix obtained by
exchanging 's
rows and columns, and satisfies the identity
(1)
Unfortunately, several other notations are commonly used, as summarized in the following table. The notation
is used in this work.
notation references This work; Golub and Van Loan (1996), Strang (1988) Arfken (1985, p. 201), Griffiths (1987, p. 223) Ayres (1962, p. 11), Courant and Hilbert (1989, p. 9)
The transpose of a matrix or tensor is implemented in the Wolfram
Language as Transpose [A ].
The product of two transposes satisfies
where Einstein summation has been used to implicitly
sum over repeated indices. Therefore,
(7)
See also Antisymmetric Matrix ,
Congruent Matrices ,
Conjugate
Matrix ,
Conjugate Transpose ,
Symmetric
Matrix
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