Properties
For any unitary matrix U, the following hold:
- Given two complex vectors x and y, multiplication by U preserves their inner product; that is,
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- U is normal
- U is diagonalizable; that is, U is unitarily similar to a diagonal matrix, as a consequence of the spectral theorem. Thus U has a decomposition of the form
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- where V is unitary and D is diagonal and unitary.
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- Its eigenspaces are orthogonal.
- For any positive integer n, the set of all n by n unitary matrices with matrix multiplication forms a group, called the unitary group U(n).
- Any square matrix with unit Euclidean norm is the average of two unitary matrices.
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