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Toeplitz matrix
Summary
In linear algebra, a Toeplitz matrix or diagonal-constant matrix, named after Otto Toeplitz, is a matrix in which each descending diagonal from left to right is constant. For instance, the following matrix is a Toeplitz matrix:
Any matrix of the form
is a Toeplitz matrix. If the element of is denoted then we have
A Toeplitz matrix is not necessarily square.
A matrix equation of the form
is called a Toeplitz system if is a Toeplitz matrix. If is an Toeplitz matrix, then the system has at-most only
unique values, rather than . We might therefore expect that the solution of a Toeplitz system would be easier, and indeed that is the case.
Toeplitz systems can be solved by the Levinson algorithm in time. Variants of this algorithm have been shown to be weakly stable (i.e. they exhibit numerical stability for well-conditioned linear systems). The algorithm can also be used to find the determinant of a Toeplitz matrix in time.
A Toeplitz matrix can also be decomposed (i.e. factored) in time. The Bareiss algorithm for an LU decomposition is stable. An LU decomposition gives a quick method for solving a Toeplitz system, and also for computing the determinant.
Algorithms that are asymptotically faster than those of Bareiss and Levinson have been described in the literature, but their accuracy cannot be relied upon.
An Toeplitz matrix may be defined as a matrix where , for constants . The set of Toeplitz matrices is a subspace of the vector space of matrices (under matrix addition and scalar multiplication).
Two Toeplitz matrices may be added in time (by storing only one value of each diagonal) and multiplied in time.
Toeplitz matrices are persymmetric. Symmetric Toeplitz matrices are both centrosymmetric and bisymmetric.
Toeplitz matrices are also closely connected with Fourier series, because the multiplication operator by a trigonometric polynomial, compressed to a finite-dimensional space, can be represented by such a matrix. Similarly, one can represent linear convolution as multiplication by a Toeplitz matrix.
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