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Let S be a symmetric matrix of n rows and n columns, and denote its elements by s ij . Because of the symmetry, the matrix has only n(n + 1)/2 independent elements. Consider those elements as the rectangular coordinates of a point in a space S of n(n + 1)/2 dimensions. The space S will be called the space of symmetric matrices.
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Siegel, C.L., Chandrasekharan, K. (1989). Lecture XI. In: Lectures on the Geometry of Numbers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08287-4_11
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