Quasi-orthogonal local maximum determinant matriсes
Nikolay Balonin, Mikhail Borisovich Sergeev · Applied Mathematical Sciences · 2015
Purpose: This note discusses quasi-orthogonal matrices which were first highlighted by J. J. Sylvester and later by V. Belevitch, who showed that three level matrices mapped to lossless telephone connections. The goal of this note is to develop a theory of such matrices based on preliminary research results. Methods: Extreme solutions (using the determinant) have been established by minimization of the maximum of the absolute values of the elements of the matrices followed by their subsequent classification. Results: We give the definitions of Balonin-Sergeev (BS) and Cretan matrices (CM), illustrations for some elementary and some interesting cases, and reveal some new properties. We restrict our attention in this remark to the properties of Cretan matrices depending on their order. This paper gives the set of basic definitions used in all our previous works, dedicated to Cretan matrices (quasi-orthogonal matrices with fixed levels). The suboptimal by determinant matrices has to have linear function, to describe numbers of their levels. We give the following estimation of this number as m n