Alternate Forms and Corollaries
A corollary is that if the entries of an n by n matrix N are bounded by B, so |Nij|≤B for all i and j, then
In particular, if the entries of N are +1 and −1 only then
In combinatorics, matrices N for which equality holds, i.e. those with orthogonal columns, are called Hadamard matrices.
A positive-semidefinite matrix P can be written as N*N, where N* denotes the conjugate transpose of N (see Cholesky decomposition). Then
So, the determinant of a positive definite matrix is less than or equal to the product of its diagonal entries. Sometimes this is also known as Hadamard's inequality.
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