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Conjugate transpose

In mathematics, the conjugate transpose or adjoint of an m-by-n matrix A with complex entries is the n-by-m matrix A^* obtained from A by taking the transpose and then taking the complex conjugate of each entry. Formally

<math>(A^*)[i,j] = \overline{A[j,i]}</math>

for 1≤i≤n and 1≤j≤m.

For example, if

<math>A=\begin{bmatrix}3+i&2\\

2-2i&i\end{bmatrix}</math> then

<math>A^*=\begin{bmatrix}3-i&2+2i\\

2&-i\end{bmatrix}</math>

If the entries of A are real, then A^* coincides with the transpose A^T of A.

This operation has the following properties:

(A + B)^* = A^* + B^* for any two matrices A and B of the same format.
(rA)^* = r^*A^* for any complex number r and any matrix A. Here r^* refers to the complex conjugate of r.
(AB)^* = B^*A^* for any m-by-n matrix A and any n-by-p matrix B.
(A^*)^* = A for any matrix A.
<Ax,y> = <x, A^*y> for any m-by-n matrix A, any vector x in Cⁿ and any vector y in C^m. Here <.,.> denotes the ordinary Euclidean inner product (or dot product) on C^m and Cⁿ.

The last property above shows that if one views A as a linear operator from the Euclidean Hilbert space Cⁿ to C^m, then the matrix A^* corresponds to the adjoint operator[?].

It is useful to think of square complex matrices as "generalized complex numbers", and of the conjugate transpose as a generalization of complex conjugation.

The square matrix A is called hermitian or self-adjoint if A = A^*. It is called normal if A^*A = AA^*.

Even if A isn't square, the two matrices A^*A and AA^* are both hermitian and in fact positive semi-definite[?].

The adjoint matrix A^* should not be confused with the adjugate adj(A) (which in older texts is also sometimes called "adjoint").

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