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Ellipsoid and linear transformation
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowCan we treat Covariance matrix as linear transformation.Linear transformation of a sphereGoing from a point in a sphere from a point in an ellipsoidTransformation of matrices in 3 dimensionsHow to find a symmetric matrix that transforms one ellipsoid to another?Determine rotational ellipsoid from main orientation and EigenvaluesGenerating uniformly distributed points within rotated ellipsoidCovariant and Contravariant Transformation - Example of Polar CoordinatesPlotting an ellipsoid using eigenvectors and eigenvaluesKernel and image of a matrix converting linear transformation
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I get confused in my algebra about this simple problem.
The equation of a 3D centred ellipsoid can be written on a compact form as
$$x^TA x=1$$
with $xin mathbbR^3$ et $A$ a matrix that contains the coefficients of the cartesian equation.
(Am I correct so far?)
Now I want to define my ellipsoid in a different way, saying that it is what becomes the unit sphere when I apply a linear transformation to it (of $3times3$ matrix $T$). By that I mean that if a vector $x$ belongs to the unit sphere, then $xT$ belongs to my ellipsoid (sorry for bad vocabulary).
My question is, what is the explicit relation between $A$ and $T$??
If someone can help me with that, I would really appreciate it!
linear-algebra linear-transformations
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I get confused in my algebra about this simple problem.
The equation of a 3D centred ellipsoid can be written on a compact form as
$$x^TA x=1$$
with $xin mathbbR^3$ et $A$ a matrix that contains the coefficients of the cartesian equation.
(Am I correct so far?)
Now I want to define my ellipsoid in a different way, saying that it is what becomes the unit sphere when I apply a linear transformation to it (of $3times3$ matrix $T$). By that I mean that if a vector $x$ belongs to the unit sphere, then $xT$ belongs to my ellipsoid (sorry for bad vocabulary).
My question is, what is the explicit relation between $A$ and $T$??
If someone can help me with that, I would really appreciate it!
linear-algebra linear-transformations
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I get confused in my algebra about this simple problem.
The equation of a 3D centred ellipsoid can be written on a compact form as
$$x^TA x=1$$
with $xin mathbbR^3$ et $A$ a matrix that contains the coefficients of the cartesian equation.
(Am I correct so far?)
Now I want to define my ellipsoid in a different way, saying that it is what becomes the unit sphere when I apply a linear transformation to it (of $3times3$ matrix $T$). By that I mean that if a vector $x$ belongs to the unit sphere, then $xT$ belongs to my ellipsoid (sorry for bad vocabulary).
My question is, what is the explicit relation between $A$ and $T$??
If someone can help me with that, I would really appreciate it!
linear-algebra linear-transformations
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I get confused in my algebra about this simple problem.
The equation of a 3D centred ellipsoid can be written on a compact form as
$$x^TA x=1$$
with $xin mathbbR^3$ et $A$ a matrix that contains the coefficients of the cartesian equation.
(Am I correct so far?)
Now I want to define my ellipsoid in a different way, saying that it is what becomes the unit sphere when I apply a linear transformation to it (of $3times3$ matrix $T$). By that I mean that if a vector $x$ belongs to the unit sphere, then $xT$ belongs to my ellipsoid (sorry for bad vocabulary).
My question is, what is the explicit relation between $A$ and $T$??
If someone can help me with that, I would really appreciate it!
linear-algebra linear-transformations
linear-algebra linear-transformations
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First of all, note that $A$ must be positive semi-definite (even positive definite is we are looking for a neat ellipsoid!) in $x^TAx=1$ representation, unless it might give you a hyperbola or nothing (say, in case that $Apreceq 0$).
Problem
If points $x$ belong to some sphere, does there exist some $T$ such that $Tx$ belongs to an ellipsoid?
Answer
Indeed there exists!
To see why, let a sphere be described as $x^T cdot kIcdot x=1$ where $I$ and $k$ are identity matrix of proper dimension and some arbitrary positive real respectively. Now if we set $y^TAy=1$ as an ellipsoid with $y=Tx$ we must have by substitution $$x^TT^TATx=1iff x^Tcdot kIcdot x=1iff T^TAT=kI$$since $T$ is invertible (which arises as a necessary condition for change of coordinates) we can write$$A=k(T^T)^-1T^-1=k(Tcdot T^T)^-1$$The above equality means that $A$ must be symmetric and positive definite. Such a $T$ always exists by Cholesky Decomposition.
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That is great! Thank you very much for your help :)
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Start with the equation of the unit sphere $mathbf x^TImathbf x=1$. You have the (I hope invertible) point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$. What do you get if you substitute $T^-1mathbf x'$ for $mathbf x$?
Going in the other direction, the principal axis theorem gives us an orthogonal basis in which the ellipsoid is axis-aligned—the principal axes—and tells us that the associated semi-axis lengths are the reciprocal square roots of the respective eigenvalues $lambda_i$ (which are all positive for an ellipsoid). The ellipsoid can therefore be transformed into the unit sphere via a transformation $T$ that scales each principal axis by $sqrtlambda_i$. In general, a quadric with matrix $A$ transforms as $T^-TAT^-1$ under the invertible point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$ (verify this!), so in this case we would have $T^-TAT^-1=I$.
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Thanks for your help!
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First of all, note that $A$ must be positive semi-definite (even positive definite is we are looking for a neat ellipsoid!) in $x^TAx=1$ representation, unless it might give you a hyperbola or nothing (say, in case that $Apreceq 0$).
Problem
If points $x$ belong to some sphere, does there exist some $T$ such that $Tx$ belongs to an ellipsoid?
Answer
Indeed there exists!
To see why, let a sphere be described as $x^T cdot kIcdot x=1$ where $I$ and $k$ are identity matrix of proper dimension and some arbitrary positive real respectively. Now if we set $y^TAy=1$ as an ellipsoid with $y=Tx$ we must have by substitution $$x^TT^TATx=1iff x^Tcdot kIcdot x=1iff T^TAT=kI$$since $T$ is invertible (which arises as a necessary condition for change of coordinates) we can write$$A=k(T^T)^-1T^-1=k(Tcdot T^T)^-1$$The above equality means that $A$ must be symmetric and positive definite. Such a $T$ always exists by Cholesky Decomposition.
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That is great! Thank you very much for your help :)
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– user655870
Mar 21 at 10:36
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First of all, note that $A$ must be positive semi-definite (even positive definite is we are looking for a neat ellipsoid!) in $x^TAx=1$ representation, unless it might give you a hyperbola or nothing (say, in case that $Apreceq 0$).
Problem
If points $x$ belong to some sphere, does there exist some $T$ such that $Tx$ belongs to an ellipsoid?
Answer
Indeed there exists!
To see why, let a sphere be described as $x^T cdot kIcdot x=1$ where $I$ and $k$ are identity matrix of proper dimension and some arbitrary positive real respectively. Now if we set $y^TAy=1$ as an ellipsoid with $y=Tx$ we must have by substitution $$x^TT^TATx=1iff x^Tcdot kIcdot x=1iff T^TAT=kI$$since $T$ is invertible (which arises as a necessary condition for change of coordinates) we can write$$A=k(T^T)^-1T^-1=k(Tcdot T^T)^-1$$The above equality means that $A$ must be symmetric and positive definite. Such a $T$ always exists by Cholesky Decomposition.
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That is great! Thank you very much for your help :)
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– user655870
Mar 21 at 10:36
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First of all, note that $A$ must be positive semi-definite (even positive definite is we are looking for a neat ellipsoid!) in $x^TAx=1$ representation, unless it might give you a hyperbola or nothing (say, in case that $Apreceq 0$).
Problem
If points $x$ belong to some sphere, does there exist some $T$ such that $Tx$ belongs to an ellipsoid?
Answer
Indeed there exists!
To see why, let a sphere be described as $x^T cdot kIcdot x=1$ where $I$ and $k$ are identity matrix of proper dimension and some arbitrary positive real respectively. Now if we set $y^TAy=1$ as an ellipsoid with $y=Tx$ we must have by substitution $$x^TT^TATx=1iff x^Tcdot kIcdot x=1iff T^TAT=kI$$since $T$ is invertible (which arises as a necessary condition for change of coordinates) we can write$$A=k(T^T)^-1T^-1=k(Tcdot T^T)^-1$$The above equality means that $A$ must be symmetric and positive definite. Such a $T$ always exists by Cholesky Decomposition.
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First of all, note that $A$ must be positive semi-definite (even positive definite is we are looking for a neat ellipsoid!) in $x^TAx=1$ representation, unless it might give you a hyperbola or nothing (say, in case that $Apreceq 0$).
Problem
If points $x$ belong to some sphere, does there exist some $T$ such that $Tx$ belongs to an ellipsoid?
Answer
Indeed there exists!
To see why, let a sphere be described as $x^T cdot kIcdot x=1$ where $I$ and $k$ are identity matrix of proper dimension and some arbitrary positive real respectively. Now if we set $y^TAy=1$ as an ellipsoid with $y=Tx$ we must have by substitution $$x^TT^TATx=1iff x^Tcdot kIcdot x=1iff T^TAT=kI$$since $T$ is invertible (which arises as a necessary condition for change of coordinates) we can write$$A=k(T^T)^-1T^-1=k(Tcdot T^T)^-1$$The above equality means that $A$ must be symmetric and positive definite. Such a $T$ always exists by Cholesky Decomposition.
answered Mar 19 at 23:31
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That is great! Thank you very much for your help :)
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That is great! Thank you very much for your help :)
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– user655870
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That is great! Thank you very much for your help :)
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– user655870
Mar 21 at 10:36
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That is great! Thank you very much for your help :)
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Start with the equation of the unit sphere $mathbf x^TImathbf x=1$. You have the (I hope invertible) point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$. What do you get if you substitute $T^-1mathbf x'$ for $mathbf x$?
Going in the other direction, the principal axis theorem gives us an orthogonal basis in which the ellipsoid is axis-aligned—the principal axes—and tells us that the associated semi-axis lengths are the reciprocal square roots of the respective eigenvalues $lambda_i$ (which are all positive for an ellipsoid). The ellipsoid can therefore be transformed into the unit sphere via a transformation $T$ that scales each principal axis by $sqrtlambda_i$. In general, a quadric with matrix $A$ transforms as $T^-TAT^-1$ under the invertible point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$ (verify this!), so in this case we would have $T^-TAT^-1=I$.
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Thanks for your help!
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– user655870
Mar 21 at 10:38
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Start with the equation of the unit sphere $mathbf x^TImathbf x=1$. You have the (I hope invertible) point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$. What do you get if you substitute $T^-1mathbf x'$ for $mathbf x$?
Going in the other direction, the principal axis theorem gives us an orthogonal basis in which the ellipsoid is axis-aligned—the principal axes—and tells us that the associated semi-axis lengths are the reciprocal square roots of the respective eigenvalues $lambda_i$ (which are all positive for an ellipsoid). The ellipsoid can therefore be transformed into the unit sphere via a transformation $T$ that scales each principal axis by $sqrtlambda_i$. In general, a quadric with matrix $A$ transforms as $T^-TAT^-1$ under the invertible point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$ (verify this!), so in this case we would have $T^-TAT^-1=I$.
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Thanks for your help!
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– user655870
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$begingroup$
Start with the equation of the unit sphere $mathbf x^TImathbf x=1$. You have the (I hope invertible) point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$. What do you get if you substitute $T^-1mathbf x'$ for $mathbf x$?
Going in the other direction, the principal axis theorem gives us an orthogonal basis in which the ellipsoid is axis-aligned—the principal axes—and tells us that the associated semi-axis lengths are the reciprocal square roots of the respective eigenvalues $lambda_i$ (which are all positive for an ellipsoid). The ellipsoid can therefore be transformed into the unit sphere via a transformation $T$ that scales each principal axis by $sqrtlambda_i$. In general, a quadric with matrix $A$ transforms as $T^-TAT^-1$ under the invertible point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$ (verify this!), so in this case we would have $T^-TAT^-1=I$.
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Start with the equation of the unit sphere $mathbf x^TImathbf x=1$. You have the (I hope invertible) point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$. What do you get if you substitute $T^-1mathbf x'$ for $mathbf x$?
Going in the other direction, the principal axis theorem gives us an orthogonal basis in which the ellipsoid is axis-aligned—the principal axes—and tells us that the associated semi-axis lengths are the reciprocal square roots of the respective eigenvalues $lambda_i$ (which are all positive for an ellipsoid). The ellipsoid can therefore be transformed into the unit sphere via a transformation $T$ that scales each principal axis by $sqrtlambda_i$. In general, a quadric with matrix $A$ transforms as $T^-TAT^-1$ under the invertible point transformation $mathbf x'=Tmathbf x$ (verify this!), so in this case we would have $T^-TAT^-1=I$.
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Thanks for your help!
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Thanks for your help!
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