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- verb Alternative spelling of
diagonalize .
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- verb transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
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Examples
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Empire and another by England, if he move at all, Heaven stay him, is fain to diagonalise.
Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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The spectral theorem for unitary matrices allows each of these matrices to be diagonalised; as is abelian, the matrices commute and so one can simultaneously diagonalise these matrices.
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Exercise 24 (Regularity transforms to decay) 24 shows that Fourier transforms diagonalise differentiation, when viewed in frequency space, become nothing more than multiplication operators diagonal matrices.)
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