Permutation Matrix - Definition

Definition

Given a permutation π of m elements,

given in two-line form by

its permutation matrix is the m × m matrix Pπ whose entries are all 0 except that in row i, the entry π(i) equals 1. We may write

where denotes a row vector of length m with 1 in the jth position and 0 in every other position.

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