<?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>trace(Matrix) -- trace of a matrix</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_transpose.html">next</a> | <a href="_to__Upper.html">previous</a> | <a href="_transpose.html">forward</a> | <a href="_to__Upper.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>trace(Matrix) -- trace of a matrix</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><span>Function: <a href="_trace_lp__Matrix_rp.html" title="trace of a matrix">trace</a></span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><tt>trace f</tt> -- returns the trace of the matrix f.<p/> <table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : R = ZZ/101[a..d] o1 = R o1 : PolynomialRing</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : p = matrix {{a,b},{c,d}} o2 = | a b | | c d | 2 2 o2 : Matrix R <--- R</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : trace p o3 = a + d o3 : R</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>