Raising a Square Matrix to a Power

raise.matrix raises a square matrix to a power by using spectral decomposition.

raise.matrix(x, power = 1)

Arguments

x	a square matrix.
power	numeric; default is 1.

Value

An object of class "matrix".

Author

Anderson Rodrigo da Silva <anderson.agro@hotmail.com>

See also

eigen, svd

Examples

m <- matrix(c(1, -2, -2, 4), 2, 2)
raise.matrix(m)
#>      [,1] [,2]
#> [1,]    1   -2
#> [2,]   -2    4
raise.matrix(m, 2)
#>      [,1] [,2]
#> [1,]    5  -10
#> [2,]  -10   20

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