Commutant
Commutant | |
Computes the commutant of a set of matrices | |
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Commutant is a function that computes an orthonormal basis (in the Hilbert-Schmidt inner product) of the commutant of a matrix or set of matrices.
Syntax
- C = Commutant(A)
Argument descriptions
- A: Either a matrix, or a cell containing one or more matrices of the same size.
Examples
A single matrix
Everything commutes with the identity matrix, which we can verify in the 2-dimensional case as follows:
>> C = Commutant(eye(2)); >> celldisp(C) % display the contents of C C{1} = 1 0 0 0 C{2} = 0 1 0 0 C{3} = 0 0 1 0 C{4} = 0 0 0 1
Bicommutant
If A is a cell that contains a basis of a unital, self-adjoint algebra, then its bicommutant spans the same set, by the von Neumann bicommutant theorem. The following code verifies this in the case of the subalgebra $M_2 \oplus M_1 \subseteq M_3$:
>> A = {[1 0 0;0 0 0;0 0 0] [0 1 0;0 0 0;0 0 0] [0 0 0;1 0 0;0 0 0] [0 0 0;0 1 0;0 0 0] [0 0 0;0 0 0;0 0 1]}; >> B = Commutant(Commutant(A)); >> celldisp(B) B{1} = 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B{2} = 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B{3} = 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 B{4} = 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 B{5} = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Note that the basis output for the bicommutant in general may be different than the basis provided as input.