
More About Matrices and Arrays
0.1471 0.2941 0.3235 0.2353
0.2647 0.1765 0.2059 0.3529
0.1176 0.4412 0.4118 0.0294
Such matric es represent the tr ansition probabilities in a Markov process.
Repeated powers of the matrix represent repeated steps of the process. For
our example, the fifth power
P^5
is
0.2507 0.2495 0.2494 0.2504
0.2497 0.2501 0.2502 0.2500
0.2500 0.2498 0.2499 0.2503
0.2496 0.2506 0.2505 0.2493
This shows that as approaches infinity, all the elements in the th power,
, approach .
Finally, the c oefficients in the characteristic polynomial
poly(A)
are
1 -34 -64 2176 0
This indicates that the characteristic polynomial
is
The constant term is zero, because the matrix is singular, and the coefficient
of the cubic term is -34, because the matrix is magic!
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