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‘Indefinite Metric’

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM,volume 2023)

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The symmetry property of our phase-space matrices gives rise to a geometri cal structure popularly called ‘an indefinite metric’ which we now will study in some detail.

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  • Hermitian Matrix
  • Zero Eigenvalue
  • Hermitian Matrice
  • Principal Submatrix
  • Elimination Step

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Correspondence to Krešimir Veselić .

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Veselić, K. (2011). ‘Indefinite Metric’. In: Damped Oscillations of Linear Systems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2023. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21335-9_5

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