symbolically solve for unknown matrix
How do you solve a matrix equation for an unknown symbolic matrix? I have read the documentation on symbolic matrix calcs, and the documentation of linear algebra / systems of linear equations, but can't work out how to do what I want.
For example given the matrix equation y = Ax
, where y
and x
are column vectors with (say) 2 rows, and A is a 2x2 matrix, I can symbolically solve this equation as follows:
A = matrix(SR, 2, 2, [[var('a'),var('b')],[var('c'),var('d')]])
y = vector([var('y1'), var('y2')])
# Solve for x such thay Ax = y:
x = A.solve_right(y)
Which will give me an expression for each of the elements of x
in terms of [a, b, c, d]
and the elements of y
.
Question: how to I get an expression for the elements of A
(i.e. [a, b, c, d]
, for a given (symbolic) x
and y
. Below is a concrete trivial example where the answer is obviously [a=1, b=1, c=1, d=-1]
, but how could I solve for these elements in sagemath?
A = matrix(SR, 2, 2, [[var('a'), var('b')],[var('c'), var('d')]])
x = vector(SR, [var('x1'), var('x2')])
y = vector(SR, [x1 + x2, x1-x2])
#solve(A*x == y, A) # <= This doesn't work
#solve(A*x == y, ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']) # <= Nor does this
I think I could probably do it by looping through each row (equation) in the system of equations, and generating a list of equations and then solving those for the unknowns, but was wondering if there's a better way?
can you apply vectorization? in particular $\text{vec}~(Ax) = (x^T \otimes I_n) \text{vec}~A$ if $A$ is a square matrix of order $n$. i didn't find by tab completion this functionality out of the box in Sage (as with Matlab's
vec
command); for the kronecker product it exists in Sage, but it is called differently (the method is namedtensor_product
).https://ask.sagemath.org/question/25895/solve-symbolic-matrix-equations/ (Here) is something similar