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In mathematics, a fundamental matrix of a system of ''n'' homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations \dot(t) = A(t) \mathbf(t) is a matrix-valued function \Psi(t) whose columns are
linearly independent In the theory of vector spaces, a set of vectors is said to be if there exists no nontrivial linear combination of the vectors that equals the zero vector. If such a linear combination exists, then the vectors are said to be . These concep ...
solutions of the system. Then every solution to the system can be written as \mathbf(t) = \Psi(t) \mathbf, for some constant vector \mathbf (written as a column vector of height ). A matrix-valued function \Psi is a fundamental matrix of \dot(t) = A(t) \mathbf(t) if and only if \dot(t) = A(t) \Psi(t) and \Psi is a
non-singular matrix In linear algebra, an invertible matrix (''non-singular'', ''non-degenarate'' or ''regular'') is a square matrix that has an inverse. In other words, if some other matrix is multiplied by the invertible matrix, the result can be multiplied by an ...
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Control theory

The fundamental matrix is used to express the state-transition matrix, an essential component in the solution of a system of linear ordinary differential equations.


See also

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Linear differential equation In mathematics, a linear differential equation is a differential equation that is linear equation, linear in the unknown function and its derivatives, so it can be written in the form a_0(x)y + a_1(x)y' + a_2(x)y'' \cdots + a_n(x)y^ = b(x) wher ...
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Liouville's formula In mathematics, Liouville's formula, also known as the Abel–Jacobi–Liouville identity, is an equation that expresses the determinant of a square-matrix solution of a first-order system of homogeneous linear differential equations in terms of t ...
* Systems of ordinary differential equations


References

Matrices (mathematics) Differential calculus * {{matrix-stub