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Abstract
This paper takes a look at a set of rhotrix whose entries are ordered natural numbers. This rhotrix is called the natural rhotrix. Properties of this set are examined and the results are presented. Since the natural rhotrix R is not invertible, a maiden investigation is made into the concepts of minor rhotrices of R, determinant functions (h(R)), codeterminant function (codet(R)), and index of a natural rhotrix. It was found that
, and their methods of computations are outlined for mathematical enrichment.
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Public Interest Statement
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1. Introduction
A rhotrix A of dimension three is a rhomboidal array defined as:
where . The entry c in A is called the heart of A, denoted as h(A). The concept of rhotrix was introduced by Ajibade (Citation2003) as an extension of matrix-tertions and matrix-noitrets by Atanassov and Shannon (Citation1998). The concept of rhotrices is still at its elementary stage of development. It is barely over a decade ago. Since its birth in 2003, many researchers have shown interest in developing and expanding this concept, most often, in analogy with the concepts of matrices usually through a transformation that converts a matrix into a rhotrix and vice versa (Ajibade, Citation2003; Sani, Citation2008). One of such works was the classification of rhotrices into sets and algebraic spaces by Mohammed and Tella (Citation2012). The paper classifies rhotrices into natural rhotrix set, real rhotrix set, complex rhotrix set, rational and irrational rhotrix sets. Thus, their work has actually opened up different branches of studying rhotrices. Therefore, this article is picking on the first branch, the natural rhotrix set. Furthermore, in this paper, most of these properties of natural rhotrices will be examined without necessarily having to go through a transformation. Though, if need be, these properties would always be in conformity to one transformation or the other. This can be examined.
Definition 1.1
Mohammed and Tella (Citation2012) A rhotrix set is called a natural rhotrix set if its rhotrice entries belong to the set of natural numbers. For example,
is the set of all three-dimensional natural rhotrices.
This set of natural rhotrix is a beautiful rhotrix with unique characteristics many of which are yet to be discovered.
In this work, we will be looking at some fundamental properties of this algebraic set.
Definition 1.2
Ajibade (Citation2003), Mohammed and Tella (Citation2012) A real rhotrix set of dimension three, denoted as was defined by Ajibade as
where is called the heart of any rhotrix R belonging to
and
is the set of real numbers. Examples showing extension of this set and analysis are copious in literature (Aminu & Michael, Citation2015; Baumslag & Chandler, Citation1968; Ezugwu, Ajibade, and Mohammed (Citation2011; Mohammed, Citation2009,Citation2014; Mohammed, Balarabe, & Imam, Citation2012; Tudunkaya & Manjuola, Citation2010; Usaini & Mohmmed, Citation2012). It is worthy to note that an n-dimensional real heart-based rhotrix denoted by
, will have it cardinality as
, where
. This implies that all heart-based or heart-oriented rhotrices are of odd dimension (
). All operations (addition and multiplication) in this work, will be as defined by Ajibade in (Citation2003). Thus, addition and multiplication of two heart-based rhotrices are defined as:
and
respectively. A generalization of this hearty multiplication is given in Mohammed (Citation2014) and in Ezegwu et al. (Citation2011),
A row-column multiplication of heart-based rhotrices was proposed by Sani (Citation2004) as:
A generalization of this row-column multiplication was also later given by Sani (Citation2007) as:
where and
are n-dimensional rhotrices (with n rows and n columns).
Definition 1.3
A rhotrix is said to be invertible if it has an inverse
For example let
Then, the inverse of A is given as
It is observed that any rhotrix is an invertible or non-singular rhotrix. However, a natural rhotrix is a singular rhotrix. That is, we cannot find
for which A is a natural rhotrix.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we shall strictly concern ourselves with the natural rhotrix—a rhotrix whose parent set is the set of well-ordered natural numbers. A natural rhotrix starts with a dimension one (i.e. ). Therefore, the cardinality of n-dimensional natural rhotrix is given by
, where
.
Remark 2.1
Recall that the set . see Aashikpelokhai, Agbeboh, Uzor, Elakhe, and Isere (Citation2010), Baumslag and Chandler (Citation1968)-The set of natural number or better still the set of non-negative integers. This set
is larger than
. Therefore, this paper is expanding the scope of set of rhotrice dimensions as hitherto presented in literature.
Definition 2.2
(Major row and major column) The major row and the major column are usually the only full row and full column in a rhotrix. They are usually at the middle of the rows and columns of any dimensional rhotrix.
A natural rhotrix, as other rhotrices, has one major row and one major column.
3. Examples of natural rhotrices
This section gives different representations of natural rhotrices as examples according to their dimensions.
(a) | A natural rhotrix of dimension one | ||||
(b) | A natural rhotrix of dimension three |
Remark 3.1
All the entries are non-zero elements of . This remark holds for the other examples of natural rhotrices.
(c) | A natural rhotrix of dimension five | ||||
(d) | A natural rhotrix of dimension seven |
Remark 3.2
You can go on and on. For example, and
will have their last entries as 41 and 61, respectively.
(e) | Generally, a natural rhotrix of dimension |
Remark 3.3
The above is the generalization of any natural rhotrix.
4. Properties of natural rhotrix
Lemma 4.1
Let be any i dimensional natural rhotrix. Then, the heart
is the middle value of a set of n numbers that make up the rhotrix if and only if
Proof
First part
Since , then there exist meddle value (median).
So, if then for
is trivial.
So, entries which are ordered natural numbers. Thus, the median is
.
So, entries which are ordered natural numbers. Thus, the median is
.
So, entries which are ordered natural numbers. Thus, the median is
.
The converse follows from the Cardinality of where
.
Theorem 4.2
Let be any n dimensional natural rhotrix. Then, the following are equivalent:
(a) | The cardinality | ||||
(b) | The last entry will be the value | ||||
(c) | The heart of | ||||
(d) | The |
Proof
(a) |
| ||||
(b) |
| ||||
(c) |
| ||||
(d) |
|
Remark 4.3
Theorem 4.1 is simply a characterization of the natural rhotrix
4.1. Determinant function
Though, the natural rhotrices are not invertible rhotrices. However, the heart of a natural rhotrix plays the role of a determinant function.
Lemma 4.4
Let A and B be any natural rhotrices of dimension n and |A| a determinant function of A , then
Proof
Let and
then
Remark 4.5
(i) | Again, the justaposition AB represents | ||||
(ii) | We will adopt h(A) to mean the determinant function of A. |
For example, consider a three-dimensional rhotrix ():
The determinant function of the above rhotrix A is designated by h(A)
Computing the value of the determinant function of any natural rhotrix is simply the value of its heart. However, for higher natural rhotrices, we introduce the concept of minor rhotrices and codeterminant functions. That brings us to the next subsection.
4.2. Codeterminant function
The concept of codeterminant functions is similar to that of minor matrices. In natural rhotrices of dimension three (), the codeterminant function is the same as the determinant function. But for higher natural rhotrices the codeterminant functions are not necessarily the same. To evaluate the codeterminant function of a higher natural rhotrix, we need to first split or reduce the higher natural rhotrix into chain(s) of
called the minor rhotrices and the determinant function of each of them is evaluated as above. These minor rhotrices are split or reduced either along the major column or along the major row and their determinant functions are summed up accordingly. For a natural rhotrix with well-ordered entries, the result is the same regardless of whether it is summed up along the major column or along the major row.
Consider the natural rhotrix of dimension five below:
Behold, .
To evaluate , the higher rhotrix needs to be split into minor rhotrices of dimension three.
That is splitting the rhotrix A along the major column gives:
While splitting along the major row gives:
Remark 4.6
For a natural rhotrix .
Example 4.7
Find the determinant and the codeterminant functions of the natural rhotrix below:
Solution
Next, we find codeterminant function, first along the major column gives:
Now along the major row gives:
Extension to higher dimension can be made in a similar manner used in reducing to minor rhotrices of
. Let us consider the next example.
Example 4.8
Find the determinant and the codeterminant functions of the following: (i) along major column (ii) along the major row of the rhotrix below:
Solution
(i) | |||||
(ii) |
4.3. Index of rhotrices
The index of a natural rhotrix A is the number of minor rhotrices of dimension three that can be derived, either along the major column or along the major row, from A. This index is a whole number or better still a natural number. For example the index of is 1 and of
,
, and
are 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Appropriately, the index of
is zero.
Theorem 4.9
Given any rhotrix R, the where
is a natural number called the index of R.
Proof
We prove using mathematical induction. Since an index of a natural rhotrix is a natural number corresponding to the number of that can be derived from
,
, and
.
Now, when , the
since the is necessarily the
. By Lemma 4.1. Implies that
, So, the equation is true for
.
For , then we have two minors of
. That is,
implies that . So, the equation is true for
.
For , then, we have three minors of
, then
So, the equation is true for and
.
Then, for ,
Then, it is true for and
.
For ,
Then, it is true for and
. Hence, the equation is true for all value of
and
a natural number.
Theorem 4.10
Giving any natural rhotrix R
where is the index and |R| is the cardinality of R, and
Proof
Since and by Lemma 4.1, determinant function is h(R). Then, the result follows from the Theorem 4.1.
5. Conclusion
This article examined the properties of the natural rhotrix set, introduced the concepts of minor rhotrices, determinant functions, codeterminant functions and index of natural rhotrices. These concepts are a novelty to rhotrix algebra, and their methods of computations are presented for mathematical enrichment. Using the results in this paper, one can evaluate the determinant function of any n-dimensional rhotrix at a glance. With the links between the determinant functions, codeterminant functions and the index one will be able do a sketch of any n-dimensional natural rhotrix no matter how large is the value of n.
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to express his profound gratitude and appreciation to Dr. Abdul Mohammed of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria for his encouragement and valuable discussion, and to the various anonymous reviewers whose contributions have helped to improve this work.
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A.O. Isere
A.O. Isere obtained first and second degrees in Mathematics from the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was employed by Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria in 2006, as a lecturer and a researcher in Mathematics till date. He got his PhD in Algebra from Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 2014. He specializes in Loop Theory, precisely in Osborn loops. Between 2012 and 2015, he has published various articles on finite Osborn loops, Holomorphy of Osborn loops and Osborn loops of order 4n.
In 2015, he picked interest in Rhotrix algebra and is currently working on the classical and nonclassical rhotrices, and Rhotrix loops.
But in this article generalizes the examples of natural rhotrix, introduces the concept of determinant function, codeterminant function and index of natural rhotrix.
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