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- From: D.J.Nettleton@newcastle.ac.uk (D J Nettleton)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Simple Matrix Question !!
- Message-ID: <BuM77L.F0L@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 10:16:32 GMT
- Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU
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- Hello I wonder if anyone can spare a second or two to
- help with this anoyingly easy problem.
-
- If you have a 2*2 matrix representing a contraction mapping,
- with coefficients a,b,c,d say, how do you check (quickly) that
- when applied to a shape it:
-
- 1) reflects in both x and y axis
-
- 2) reflects in just one
-
- 3) neither.
-
- All irrespective of any contraction.
-
- Is it simply to do with the values of the eigenvalues?
- i.e. both -'ve then 1) above, one -'ve then 2) above ...
- (from decomposition of A^{n}=PD^{n}P^{-1} where D e-value
- matrix and P matrix of corresponding e-vectors).
-
- Many thanks,
-
- Dave
-
- e-mail: D.J.Nettleton@durham.ac.uk
-