document.write( "Question 1062855: show that the product of two skew symmetric matrices is diagonal.Is this true for n x n skew symmetric matrices with n>2 or n=2 ? \n" ); document.write( "

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Recall that A is a skew symmetric matrix implies that A^T = -A, also the diagonal of A is zeroes
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\n" ); document.write( "A is the sum of its symmetric and skew symmetric components, namely
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\n" ); document.write( "A = ((A + A^T)/2) + ((A - A^T)/2)
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\n" ); document.write( "Note that a diagonal matrix has all off-diagonal elements equal to zero
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\n" ); document.write( "Let A and B be skew symmetric matrices, then their product AB is symmetric
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\n" ); document.write( "AB = (AB)^T
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\n" ); document.write( "This is only true for n = 2, then we have AB is diagonal and symetric
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