In mathematics, a jacket matrix is a square symmetric matrix of order n if its entries are non-zero and real, complex, or from a finite field, and

where In is the identity matrix, and
where T denotes the transpose of the matrix.
In other words, the inverse of a jacket matrix is determined its element-wise or block-wise inverse. The definition above may also be expressed as:
The jacket matrix is a generalization of the Hadamard matrix; it is a diagonal block-wise inverse matrix.
Motivation
n | .... −2, −1, 0 1, 2,..... | logarithm |
2n | .... 1, 2, 4, ... | series |
As shown in the table, i.e. in the series, for example with n=2, forward: , inverse : , then, . That is, there exists an element-wise inverse.
Example 1.
- :
or more general
- :
Example 2.
For m x m matrices,
denotes an mn x mn block diagonal Jacket matrix.
Example 3.
- , and .
Therefore,
- .
Also,
- , .
Finally,
A·B = B·A = I
Example 4.
A block circulant Jacket matrix (BCJM) is defined by [3, 5]
be 2x2 block matrix of order N=2p. If and are pxp Jacket matrices, then is the Jacket matrix if and only if
where RT is reciprocal transpose.
Example 5.
If p=2, a block circulant Jacket matrix (BCJM) is given by
where and are the Hadamard matrix.
References
[1] Moon Ho Lee, "The Center Weighted Hadamard Transform", IEEE Transactions on Circuits Syst. Vol. 36, No. 9, PP. 1247–1249, Sept. 1989.
[2] Kathy Horadam, Hadamard Matrices and Their Applications, Princeton University Press, UK, Chapter 4.5.1: The jacket matrix construction, PP. 85–91, 2007.
[3] Moon Ho Lee, Jacket Matrices: Constructions and Its Applications for Fast Cooperative Wireless Signal Processing, LAP LAMBERT Publishing, Germany, Nov. 2012.
[4] Moon Ho Lee, "The COVID-19 DNA-RNA Genetic Code Analysis Using Information Theory of Double Stochastic Matrix", Matrix Theory - Classics and Advances, edited by Mykhaylo I Andriychuk, IntechOpen, June 2022.
[5] Moon Ho Lee, "MIMO Communication Method and System using the Block Circulant Jacket Matrix]", US patent, US9356671.