<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>Matrix ** Matrix -- tensor product</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="___Matrix_sp_st_st_sp__Module.html">next</a> | <a href="___Matrix_sp_st_sp__Matrix.html">previous</a> | <a href="___Matrix_sp_st_st_sp__Module.html">forward</a> | <a href="___Matrix_sp_st_sp__Matrix.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>Matrix ** Matrix -- tensor product</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>f ** g</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Operator: <a href="__st_st.html" title="a binary operator, usually used for tensor product or Cartesian product">**</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>f</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Matrix.html">matrix</a></span></span></li> <li><span><tt>g</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Matrix.html">matrix</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___Matrix.html">matrix</a></span>, the tensor product of maps f and g</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div>Other names for the tensor product include: the outer product, or the Kronecker product of two matrices.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : R = ZZ[a..d];</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : f = matrix {{a,b}} o2 = | a b | 1 2 o2 : Matrix R <--- R</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : g = transpose matrix {{c,d}} o3 = {-1} | c | {-1} | d | 2 1 o3 : Matrix R <--- R</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : f ** g o4 = {-1} | ac bc | {-1} | ad bd | 2 2 o4 : Matrix R <--- R</pre> </td></tr> </table> <p/> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_flip_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html" title="matrix of commutativity of tensor product">flip</a> -- matrix of commutativity of tensor product</span></li> <li><span><a href="___Module_sp_st_st_sp__Module.html" title="tensor product">Module ** Module</a> -- tensor product</span></li> <li><span><a href="___Matrix_sp_st_st_sp__Module.html" title="tensor product">Matrix ** Module</a> -- tensor product</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>