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Direct sum of matrix spaces

asked 2014-03-23 09:09:32 +0100

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updated 2019-03-18 20:58:20 +0100

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Is it possible to construct a direct sum of matrix spaces?

For example:

M1 = MatrixSpace(QQ, 1)
M2 = MatrixSpace(QQ, 2)
M = DirectSum(M1, M1, M2)    # doesn’t work

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answered 2014-03-25 16:24:31 +0100

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You can do:

sage: M = CartesianProduct(M1, M1, M2)
sage: M
Cartesian product of Full MatrixSpace of 1 by 1 dense matrices over Rational Field, Full MatrixSpace of 1 by 1 dense matrices over Rational Field, Full MatrixSpace of 2 by 2 dense matrices over Rational Field

But then you will lose the algebra structure:

sage: M.category()
Category of enumerated sets
sage: M1.category()
Category of algebras over Rational Field

It should be possible to keep this structure by doing something like:

sage: M1.cartesian_product(M1,M2)

But then you will get an

AttributeError: type object 'MatrixSpace' has no attribute 'CartesianProduct'
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