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Title of object: Frobenius matrix norm
Canonical Name: FrobeniusMatrixNorm
Type: Definition

Created on: 2001-10-06 14:43:07
Modified on: 2004-08-24 13:12:03

Creator: mathcam
Modifier: mathcam
Author: mathcam
Author: Logan

Classification: msc:15A60, msc:65F35
Synonyms: Frobenius matrix norm=euclidean matrix norm
Frobenius matrix norm=matrix F-norm
Frobenius matrix norm=Hilbert-Schmidt norm

Revision comment (for changes between this and next version):

Changes for correction #5675 ('unitary transformation').

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Content:

Let $R$ be an ordered ring with a valuation $|\cdot|$ and let $M(R)$ denote the set of matrices over $R$. The \emph{Frobenius norm function} or \emph{Euclidean matrix norm} is the norm function $||A||_F:M(R)\ra\R$ given by
\begin{align*}
||\,A\,||_F = \sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^m\sum_{j=1}^n|a_{ij}|^2}
\end{align*}
A more concise (though equivalent) definition is
\begin{align*}
||\,A\,||_F = \sqrt{\textrm{trace}(A^*A)},
\end{align*}
where $A^*$ denotes the conjugate transpose of $A$.

Denote the columns of $A$ by $A_i$. A nice property of the norm is that
\begin{align*}
||A||_F^2=||A_1||_2^2+||A_2||_2^2+\cdots+||A_n||_2^2.
\end{align*}

(see \PMlinkname{trace}{Trace}, \PMlinkname{transpose}{Transpose})