Definition
In what follows, will denote the field of real or complex numbers. Let denote the vector space containing all matrices with rows and columns with entries in . Throughout the article denotes the conjugate transpose of matrix .
A matrix norm is a vector norm on . That is, if denotes the norm of the matrix, then,
- if and iff
- for all in and all matrices in
- for all matrices and in
Additionally, in the case of square matrices (thus, m = n), some (but not all) matrix norms satisfy the following condition, which is related to the fact that matrices are more than just vectors:
- for all matrices and in
A matrix norm that satisfies this additional property is called a sub-multiplicative norm (in some books, the terminology matrix norm is used only for those norms which are sub-multiplicative). The set of all n-by-n matrices, together with such a sub-multiplicative norm, is an example of a Banach algebra.
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