how can I calculate A^n when n is a symbolic positive integer?
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Songbai Jin
on 23 Jan 2023
Commented: Songbai Jin
on 25 Jan 2023
A = [1/2,1/2,0,0;1/2,0,1/2,0;1/2,0,0,1/2;0,0,0,1]
syms n positive integer
A^n
This would not work because it got stuck and could never stop.
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Walter Roberson
on 24 Jan 2023
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 24 Jan 2023
syms N positive integer
[V, D] = eig(sym(A))
result = V*diag(diag(D).^N)/V
Note those are the matrix operations * and / not element by element operations
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