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# 58. linearalgebra

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## 58.1 Introduction to linearalgebra

`linearalgebra` is a collection of functions for linear algebra.

Example:

    (%i1) M : matrix ([1, 2], [1, 2]);
                                [ 1  2 ]
    (%o1)                       [      ]
                                [ 1  2 ]
    (%i2) nullspace (M);
                                   [  1  ]
                                   [     ]
    (%o2)                     span([   1 ])
                                   [ - - ]
                                   [   2 ]
    (%i3) columnspace (M);
                                    [ 1 ]
    (%o3)                      span([   ])
                                    [ 1 ]
    (%i4) ptriangularize (M - z*ident(2), z);
                             [ 1   2 - z   ]
    (%o4)                    [             ]
                             [           2 ]
                             [ 0  3 z - z  ]
    (%i5) M : matrix ([1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]) - z*ident(3);
                         [ 1 - z    2      3   ]
                         [                     ]
    (%o5)                [   4    5 - z    6   ]
                         [                     ]
                         [   7      8    9 - z ]
    (%i6) MM : ptriangularize (M, z);
                  [ 4  5 - z            6            ]
                  [                                  ]
                  [                2                 ]
                  [     66        z    102 z   132   ]
                  [ 0   --      - -- + ----- + ---   ]
    (%o6)         [     49        7     49     49    ]
                  [                                  ]
                  [               3        2         ]
                  [           49 z    245 z    147 z ]
                  [ 0    0    ----- - ------ - ----- ]
                  [            264      88      44   ]
    (%i7) algebraic : true;
    (%o7)                         true
    (%i8) tellrat (MM [3, 3]);
                             3       2
    (%o8)                  [z  - 15 z  - 18 z]
    (%i9) MM : ratsimp (MM);
                   [ 4  5 - z           6           ]
                   [                                ]
                   [                2               ]
    (%o9)          [     66      7 z  - 102 z - 132 ]
                   [ 0   --    - ------------------ ]
                   [     49              49         ]
                   [                                ]
                   [ 0    0             0           ]
    (%i10) nullspace (MM);
                            [        1         ]
                            [                  ]
                            [   2              ]
                            [  z  - 14 z - 16  ]
                            [  --------------  ]
    (%o10)             span([        8         ])
                            [                  ]
                            [    2             ]
                            [   z  - 18 z - 12 ]
                            [ - -------------- ]
                            [         12       ]
    (%i11) M : matrix ([1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8], [9, 10, 11, 12],
                       [13, 14, 15, 16]);
                           [ 1   2   3   4  ]
                           [                ]
                           [ 5   6   7   8  ]
    (%o11)                 [                ]
                           [ 9   10  11  12 ]
                           [                ]
                           [ 13  14  15  16 ]
    (%i12) columnspace (M);
                               [ 1  ]  [ 2  ]
                               [    ]  [    ]
                               [ 5  ]  [ 6  ]
    (%o12)                span([    ], [    ])
                               [ 9  ]  [ 10 ]
                               [    ]  [    ]
                               [ 13 ]  [ 14 ]
    (%i13) apply ('orthogonal_complement, args (nullspace (transpose (M))));
                               [ 0 ]  [  1  ]
                               [   ]  [     ]
                               [ 1 ]  [  0  ]
    (%o13)                span([   ], [     ])
                               [ 2 ]  [ - 1 ]
                               [   ]  [     ]
                               [ 3 ]  [ - 2 ]

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## 58.2 Functions and Variables for linearalgebra

Function: addmatrices (f, M_1, ..., M_n)

  Using the function f as the addition function, return the sum of the matrices M_1, ..., M_n. The function f must accept any number of arguments (a Maxima nary function).

  Examples:

      (%i1) m1 : matrix([1,2],[3,4])$
      (%i2) m2 : matrix([7,8],[9,10])$
      (%i3) addmatrices('max,m1,m2);
      (%o3) matrix([7,8],[9,10])
      (%i4) addmatrices('max,m1,m2,5*m1);
      (%o4) matrix([7,10],[15,20])

Function: blockmatrixp (M)

  Return true if and only if M is a matrix and every entry of M is a matrix.

Function: columnop (M, i, j, theta)

  If M is a matrix, return the matrix that results from doing the column operation `C_i <- C_i - theta * C_j`. If M doesn't have a row i or j, signal an error.

Function: columnswap (M, i, j)

  If M is a matrix, swap columns i and j. If M doesn't have a column i or j, signal an error.

Function: columnspace (M)

  If M is a matrix, return `span (v_1, ..., v_n)`, where the set `{v_1, ..., v_n}` is a basis for the column space of M. The span of the empty set is `{0}`. Thus, when the column space has only one member, return `span ()`.

Function: copy (e)

  Return a copy of the Maxima expression e. Although e can be any Maxima expression, the copy function is the most useful when e is either a list or a matrix; consider:

      (%i1) m : [1,[2,3]]$
      (%i2) mm : m$
      (%i3) mm[2][1] : x$
      (%i4) m;
      (%o4)                      [1,[x,3]]
      (%i5) mm;
      (%o5)                      [1,[x,3]]

  Let's try the same experiment, but this time let mm be a copy of m

      (%i6) m : [1,[2,3]]$
      (%i7) mm : copy(m)$
      (%i8) mm[2][1] : x$
      (%i9) m;
      (%o9)                     [1,[2,3]]
      (%i10) mm;
      (%o10)                    [1,[x,3]]

  This time, the assignment to mm does not change the value of m.

Function: cholesky (M)
Function: cholesky (M, field)

  Return the Cholesky factorization of the matrix selfadjoint (or hermitian) matrix M. The second argument defaults to 'generalring.' For a description of the possible values for field, see `lu_factor`.

Function: ctranspose (M)

  Return the complex conjugate transpose of the matrix M. The function `ctranspose` uses `matrix_element_transpose` to transpose each matrix element.

Function: diag_matrix (d_1, d_2,...,d_n)

  Return a diagonal matrix with diagonal entries d_1, d_2, ..., d_n. When the diagonal entries are matrices, the zero entries of the returned matrix are zero matrices of the appropriate size; for example:

      (%i1) diag_matrix(diag_matrix(1,2),diag_matrix(3,4));

                                  [ [ 1  0 ]  [ 0  0 ] ]
                                  [ [      ]  [      ] ]
                                  [ [ 0  2 ]  [ 0  0 ] ]
      (%o1)                       [                    ]
                                  [ [ 0  0 ]  [ 3  0 ] ]
                                  [ [      ]  [      ] ]
                                  [ [ 0  0 ]  [ 0  4 ] ]
      (%i2) diag_matrix(p,q);

                                         [ p  0 ]
      (%o2)                              [      ]
                                         [ 0  q ]

Function: dotproduct (u, v)

  Return the dotproduct of vectors u and v. This is the same as `conjugate (transpose (u)) . v`. The arguments u and v must be column vectors.

Function: eigens_by_jacobi (A)
Function: eigens_by_jacobi (A, field_type)

  Computes the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of A by the method of Jacobi rotations. A must be a symmetric matrix (but it need not be positive definite nor positive semidefinite). field_type indicates the computational field, either `floatfield` or `bigfloatfield`. If field_type is not specified, it defaults to `floatfield`.

  The elements of A must be numbers or expressions which evaluate to numbers via `float` or `bfloat` (depending on field_type).

  Examples:

      (%i1) S: matrix([1/sqrt(2), 1/sqrt(2)],[-1/sqrt(2), 1/sqrt(2)]);
                           [     1         1    ]
                           [  -------   ------- ]
                           [  sqrt(2)   sqrt(2) ]
      (%o1)                [                    ]
                           [      1        1    ]
                           [ - -------  ------- ]
                           [   sqrt(2)  sqrt(2) ]
      (%i2) L : matrix ([sqrt(3), 0], [0, sqrt(5)]);
                            [ sqrt(3)     0    ]
      (%o2)                 [                  ]
                            [    0     sqrt(5) ]
      (%i3) M : S . L . transpose (S);
                  [ sqrt(5)   sqrt(3)  sqrt(5)   sqrt(3) ]
                  [ ------- + -------  ------- - ------- ]
                  [    2         2        2         2    ]
      (%o3)       [                                      ]
                  [ sqrt(5)   sqrt(3)  sqrt(5)   sqrt(3) ]
                  [ ------- - -------  ------- + ------- ]
                  [    2         2        2         2    ]
      (%i4) eigens_by_jacobi (M);
      The largest percent change was 0.1454972243679
      The largest percent change was 0.0
      number of sweeps: 2
      number of rotations: 1
      (%o4) [[1.732050807568877, 2.23606797749979],
                              [  0.70710678118655   0.70710678118655 ]
                              [                                      ]]
                              [ - 0.70710678118655  0.70710678118655 ]
      (%i5) float ([[sqrt(3), sqrt(5)], S]);
      (%o5) [[1.732050807568877, 2.23606797749979],
                              [  0.70710678118655   0.70710678118655 ]
                              [                                      ]]
                              [ - 0.70710678118655  0.70710678118655 ]
      (%i6) eigens_by_jacobi (M, bigfloatfield);
      The largest percent change was 1.454972243679028b-1
      The largest percent change was 0.0b0
      number of sweeps: 2
      number of rotations: 1
      (%o6) [[1.732050807568877b0, 2.23606797749979b0],
                      [  7.071067811865475b-1   7.071067811865475b-1 ]
                      [                                              ]]
                      [ - 7.071067811865475b-1  7.071067811865475b-1 ]

Function: get_lu_factors (x)

  When `x = lu_factor (A)`, then `get_lu_factors` returns a list of the form `[P, L, U]`, where P is a permutation matrix, L is lower triangular with ones on the diagonal, and U is upper triangular, and `A = P L U`.

Function: hankel (col)
Function: hankel (col, row)

  Return a Hankel matrix H. The first column of H is col; except for the first entry, the last row of H is row. The default for row is the zero vector with the same length as col.

Function: hessian (f, x)

  Returns the Hessian matrix of f with respect to the list of variables x. The `(i, j)`-th element of the Hessian matrix is `diff(f, x[i], 1, x[j], 1)`.

  Examples:

      (%i1) hessian (x * sin (y), [x, y]);
                           [   0       cos(y)   ]
      (%o1)                [                    ]
                           [ cos(y)  - x sin(y) ]
      (%i2) depends (F, [a, b]);
      (%o2)                       [F(a, b)]
      (%i3) hessian (F, [a, b]);
                              [   2      2   ]
                              [  d F    d F  ]
                              [  ---   ----- ]
                              [    2   da db ]
                              [  da          ]
      (%o3)                   [              ]
                              [   2      2   ]
                              [  d F    d F  ]
                              [ -----   ---  ]
                              [ da db     2  ]
                              [         db   ]

Function: hilbert_matrix (n)

  Return the n by n Hilbert matrix. When n isn't a positive integer, signal an error.

Function: identfor (M)
Function: identfor (M, fld)

  Return an identity matrix that has the same shape as the matrix M. The diagonal entries of the identity matrix are the multiplicative identity of the field fld; the default for fld is generalring.

  The first argument M should be a square matrix or a non-matrix. When M is a matrix, each entry of M can be a square matrix - thus M can be a blocked Maxima matrix. The matrix can be blocked to any (finite) depth.

  See also `zerofor`

Function: invert_by_lu (M, (rng generalring))

  Invert a matrix M by using the LU factorization. The LU factorization is done using the ring rng.

Function: jacobian (f, x)

  Returns the Jacobian matrix of the list of functions f with respect to the list of variables x. The `(i, j)`-th element of the Jacobian matrix is `diff(f[i], x[j])`.

  Examples:

      (%i1) jacobian ([sin (u - v), sin (u * v)], [u, v]);
                        [ cos(v - u)  - cos(v - u) ]
      (%o1)             [                          ]
                        [ v cos(u v)   u cos(u v)  ]
      (%i2) depends ([F, G], [y, z]);
      (%o2)                  [F(y, z), G(y, z)]
      (%i3) jacobian ([F, G], [y, z]);
                                 [ dF  dF ]
                                 [ --  -- ]
                                 [ dy  dz ]
      (%o3)                      [        ]
                                 [ dG  dG ]
                                 [ --  -- ]
                                 [ dy  dz ]

Function: kronecker_product (A, B)

  Return the Kronecker product of the matrices A and B.

Function: listp (e, p)
Function: listp (e)

  Given an optional argument p, return `true` if e is a Maxima list and p evaluates to `true` for every list element. When `listp` is not given the optional argument, return `true` if e is a Maxima list. In all other cases, return `false`.

Function: locate_matrix_entry (M, r_1, c_1, r_2, c_2, f, rel)

  The first argument must be a matrix; the arguments r_1 through c_2 determine a sub-matrix of M that consists of rows r_1 through r_2 and columns c_1 through c_2.

  Find a entry in the sub-matrix M that satisfies some property. Three cases:

  (1) `rel = 'bool` and f a predicate:

  Scan the sub-matrix from left to right then top to bottom, and return the index of the first entry that satisfies the predicate f. If no matrix entry satisfies f, return `false`.

  (2) `rel = 'max` and f real-valued:

  Scan the sub-matrix looking for an entry that maximizes f. Return the index of a maximizing entry.

  (3) `rel = 'min` and f real-valued:

  Scan the sub-matrix looking for an entry that minimizes f. Return the index of a minimizing entry.

Function: lu_backsub (M, b)

  When `M = lu_factor (A, field)`, then `lu_backsub (M, b)` solves the linear system `A x = b`.

Function: lu_factor (M, field)

  Return a list of the form `[LU, perm, fld]`, or `[LU, perm, fld, lower-cnd upper-cnd]`, where

  (1) The matrix LU contains the factorization of M in a packed form. Packed form means three things: First, the rows of LU are permuted according to the list perm. If, for example, perm is the list `[3,2,1]`, the actual first row of the LU factorization is the third row of the matrix LU. Second, the lower triangular factor of m is the lower triangular part of LU with the diagonal entries replaced by all ones. Third, the upper triangular factor of M is the upper triangular part of LU.

  (2) When the field is either `floatfield` or `complexfield`, the numbers lower-cnd and upper-cnd are lower and upper bounds for the infinity norm condition number of M. For all fields, the condition number might not be estimated; for such fields, `lu_factor` returns a two item list. Both the lower and upper bounds can differ from their true values by arbitrarily large factors. (See also `mat_cond`.)

  The argument M must be a square matrix.

  The optional argument fld must be a symbol that determines a ring or field. The pre-defined fields and rings are:

  (a) `generalring` - the ring of Maxima expressions, (b) `floatfield` - the field of floating point numbers of the type double, (c) `complexfield` - the field of complex floating point numbers of the type double, (d) `crering` - the ring of Maxima CRE expressions, (e) `rationalfield` - the field of rational numbers, (f) `runningerror` - track the all floating point rounding errors, (g) `noncommutingring` - the ring of Maxima expressions where multiplication is the non-commutative dot operator.

  When the field is `floatfield`, `complexfield`, or `runningerror`, the algorithm uses partial pivoting; for all other fields, rows are switched only when needed to avoid a zero pivot.

  Floating point addition arithmetic isn't associative, so the meaning of 'field' differs from the mathematical definition.

  A member of the field `runningerror` is a two member Maxima list of the form `[x,n]`,where x is a floating point number and `n` is an integer. The relative difference between the 'true' value of `x` and `x` is approximately bounded by the machine epsilon times `n`. The running error bound drops some terms that of the order the square of the machine epsilon.

  There is no user-interface for defining a new field. A user that is familiar with Common Lisp should be able to define a new field. To do this, a user must define functions for the arithmetic operations and functions for converting from the field representation to Maxima and back. Additionally, for ordered fields (where partial pivoting will be used), a user must define functions for the magnitude and for comparing field members. After that all that remains is to define a Common Lisp structure `mring`. The file `mring` has many examples.

  To compute the factorization, the first task is to convert each matrix entry to a member of the indicated field. When conversion isn't possible, the factorization halts with an error message. Members of the field needn't be Maxima expressions. Members of the `complexfield`, for example, are Common Lisp complex numbers. Thus after computing the factorization, the matrix entries must be converted to Maxima expressions.

  See also `get_lu_factors`.

  Examples:

      (%i1) w[i,j] := random (1.0) + %i * random (1.0);
      (%o1)          w     := random(1.) + %i random(1.)
                      i, j
      (%i2) showtime : true$
      Evaluation took 0.00 seconds (0.00 elapsed)
      (%i3) M : genmatrix (w, 100, 100)$
      Evaluation took 7.40 seconds (8.23 elapsed)
      (%i4) lu_factor (M, complexfield)$
      Evaluation took 28.71 seconds (35.00 elapsed)
      (%i5) lu_factor (M, generalring)$
      Evaluation took 109.24 seconds (152.10 elapsed)
      (%i6) showtime : false$

      (%i7) M : matrix ([1 - z, 3], [3, 8 - z]);
                              [ 1 - z    3   ]
      (%o7)                   [              ]
                              [   3    8 - z ]
      (%i8) lu_factor (M, generalring);
                [ 1 - z         3        ]
                [                        ]
      (%o8)    [[   3            9       ], [1, 2], generalring]
                [ -----  - z - ----- + 8 ]
                [ 1 - z        1 - z     ]
      (%i9) get_lu_factors (%);
                        [   1    0 ]  [ 1 - z         3        ]
              [ 1  0 ]  [          ]  [                        ]
      (%o9)  [[      ], [   3      ], [                9       ]]
              [ 0  1 ]  [ -----  1 ]  [   0    - z - ----- + 8 ]
                        [ 1 - z    ]  [              1 - z     ]
      (%i10) %[1] . %[2] . %[3];
                              [ 1 - z    3   ]
      (%o10)                  [              ]
                              [   3    8 - z ]

Function: mat_cond (M, 1)
Function: mat_cond (M, inf)

  Return the p-norm matrix condition number of the matrix m. The allowed values for p are 1 and inf. This function uses the LU factorization to invert the matrix m. Thus the running time for `mat_cond` is proportional to the cube of the matrix size; `lu_factor` determines lower and upper bounds for the infinity norm condition number in time proportional to the square of the matrix size.

Function: mat_norm (M, 1)
Function: mat_norm (M, inf)
Function: mat_norm (M, frobenius)

  Return the matrix p-norm of the matrix M. The allowed values for p are 1, `inf`, and `frobenius` (the Frobenius matrix norm). The matrix M should be an unblocked matrix.

Function: matrixp (e, p)
Function: matrixp (e)

  Given an optional argument p, return `true` if e is a matrix and p evaluates to `true` for every matrix element. When `matrixp` is not given an optional argument, return `true` if `e` is a matrix. In all other cases, return `false`.

  See also `blockmatrixp`

Function: matrix_size (M)

  Return a two member list that gives the number of rows and columns, respectively of the matrix M.

Function: mat_fullunblocker (M)

  If M is a block matrix, unblock the matrix to all levels. If M is a matrix, return M; otherwise, signal an error.

Function: mat_trace (M)

  Return the trace of the matrix M. If M isn't a matrix, return a noun form. When M is a block matrix, `mat_trace(M)` returns the same value as does `mat_trace(mat_unblocker(m))`.

Function: mat_unblocker (M)

  If M is a block matrix, unblock M one level. If M is a matrix, `mat_unblocker (M)` returns M; otherwise, signal an error.

  Thus if each entry of M is matrix, `mat_unblocker (M)` returns an unblocked matrix, but if each entry of M is a block matrix, `mat_unblocker (M)` returns a block matrix with one less level of blocking.

  If you use block matrices, most likely you'll want to set `matrix_element_mult` to `"."` and `matrix_element_transpose` to `'transpose`. See also `mat_fullunblocker`.

  Example:

      (%i1) A : matrix ([1, 2], [3, 4]);
                                  [ 1  2 ]
      (%o1)                       [      ]
                                  [ 3  4 ]
      (%i2) B : matrix ([7, 8], [9, 10]);
                                  [ 7  8  ]
      (%o2)                       [       ]
                                  [ 9  10 ]
      (%i3) matrix ([A, B]);
                           [ [ 1  2 ]  [ 7  8  ] ]
      (%o3)                [ [      ]  [       ] ]
                           [ [ 3  4 ]  [ 9  10 ] ]
      (%i4) mat_unblocker (%);
                               [ 1  2  7  8  ]
      (%o4)                    [             ]
                               [ 3  4  9  10 ]

Function: nullspace (M)

  If M is a matrix, return `span (v_1, ..., v_n)`, where the set `{v_1, ..., v_n}` is a basis for the nullspace of M. The span of the empty set is `{0}`. Thus, when the nullspace has only one member, return `span ()`.

Function: nullity (M)

  If M is a matrix, return the dimension of the nullspace of M.

Function: orthogonal_complement (v_1, ..., v_n)

  Return `span (u_1, ..., u_m)`, where the set `{u_1, ..., u_m}` is a basis for the orthogonal complement of the set `(v_1, ..., v_n)`.

  Each vector v_1 through v_n must be a column vector.

Function: polynomialp (p, L, coeffp, exponp)
Function: polynomialp (p, L, coeffp)
Function: polynomialp (p, L)

  Return `true` if p is a polynomial in the variables in the list L. The predicate coeffp must evaluate to `true` for each coefficient, and the predicate exponp must evaluate to `true` for all exponents of the variables in L. If you want to use a non-default value for exponp, you must supply coeffp with a value even if you want to use the default for coeffp.

  The command `polynomialp (p, L, coeffp)` is equivalent to `polynomialp (p, L, coeffp, 'nonnegintegerp)` and `polynomialp (p, L)` is equivalent to `polynomialp (p, L, 'constantp, 'nonnegintegerp)`.

  The polynomial needn't be expanded:

      (%i1) polynomialp ((x + 1)*(x + 2), [x]);
      (%o1)                         true
      (%i2) polynomialp ((x + 1)*(x + 2)^a, [x]);
      (%o2)                         false

  An example using non-default values for coeffp and exponp:

      (%i1) polynomialp ((x + 1)*(x + 2)^(3/2), [x], numberp, numberp);
      (%o1)                         true
      (%i2) polynomialp ((x^(1/2) + 1)*(x + 2)^(3/2), [x], numberp,
                                                              numberp);
      (%o2)                         true

  Polynomials with two variables:

      (%i1) polynomialp (x^2 + 5*x*y + y^2, [x]);
      (%o1)                         false
      (%i2) polynomialp (x^2 + 5*x*y + y^2, [x, y]);
      (%o2)                         true

Function: polytocompanion (p, x)

  If p is a polynomial in x, return the companion matrix of p. For a monic polynomial p of degree n, we have `p = (-1)^n charpoly (polytocompanion (p, x))`.

  When p isn't a polynomial in x, signal an error.

Function: ptriangularize (M, v)

  If M is a matrix with each entry a polynomial in v, return a matrix M2 such that

  (1) M2 is upper triangular,

  (2) `M2 = E_n ... E_1 M`, where E_1 through E_n are elementary matrices whose entries are polynomials in v,

  (3) `|det (M)| = |det (M2)|`,

  Note: This function doesn't check that every entry is a polynomial in v.

Function: rowop (M, i, j, theta)

  If M is a matrix, return the matrix that results from doing the row operation `R_i <- R_i - theta * R_j`. If M doesn't have a row i or j, signal an error.

Function: rank (M)

  Return the rank of that matrix M. The rank is the dimension of the column space.

  Example:

      (%i1) rank(matrix([1,2],[2,4]));
      (%o1)                                  1
      (%i2) rank(matrix([1,b],[c,d]));
      Proviso:  {d - b c # 0}
      (%o2)                                  2

Function: rowswap (M, i, j)

  If M is a matrix, swap rows i and j. If M doesn't have a row i or j, signal an error.

Function: toeplitz (col)
Function: toeplitz (col, row)

  Return a Toeplitz matrix T. The first first column of T is col; except for the first entry, the first row of T is row. The default for row is complex conjugate of col.

  Example:

      (%i1)  toeplitz([1,2,3],[x,y,z]);

                                        [ 1  y  z ]
                                        [         ]
      (%o1)                             [ 2  1  y ]
                                        [         ]
                                        [ 3  2  1 ]
      (%i2)  toeplitz([1,1+%i]);

                                    [   1     1 - %I ]
      (%o2)                         [                ]
                                    [ %I + 1    1    ]

Function: vandermonde_matrix ([x_1, ..., x_n])

  Return a n by n matrix whose i-th row is `[1, x_i, x_i^2, ... x_i^(n-1)]`.

Function: zerofor (M)
Function: zerofor (M, fld)

  Return a zero matrix that has the same shape as the matrix M. Every entry of the zero matrix is the additive identity of the field fld; the default for fld is generalring.

  The first argument M should be a square matrix or a non-matrix. When M is a matrix, each entry of M can be a square matrix - thus M can be a blocked Maxima matrix. The matrix can be blocked to any (finite) depth.

  See also `identfor`

Function: zeromatrixp (M)

  If M is not a block matrix, return `true` if `is (equal (e, 0))` is true for each element e of the matrix M. If M is a block matrix, return `true` if `zeromatrixp` evaluates to `true` for each element of e.

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