Let \({{\bf{r}}_1} \ldots ,{{\bf{r}}_p}\) be vectors in \({\mathbb{R}^{\bf{n}}}\), and let Qbe an\(m \times n\)matrix. Write the matrix\(\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{Q{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{Q{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right)\)as a productof two matrices (neither of which is an identity matrix).

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The matrix\(\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{Q{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{Q{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right)\)as a product of two matrices is \(\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{Q{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{Q{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right) = QR\), where \(\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right) = R\).

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Definition of matrix multiplication

Consider two matrices P and Q of order\(m \times n\)and\(n \times p\), respectively. The order of the product PQ matrix is\(m \times p\).

Let\({{\bf{q}}_1},{{\bf{q}}_2},...,{{\bf{q}}_n}\)be the columns of the matrix Q. Then, the product PQ is obtained as shown below:

\(\begin{aligned}{c}PQ = P\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{{{\bf{q}}_1}}&{{{\bf{q}}_2}}& \cdots &{{{\bf{q}}_n}}\end{aligned}} \right)\\ = \left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{P{{\bf{q}}_1}}&{P{{\bf{q}}_2}}& \cdots &{P{{\bf{q}}_n}}\end{aligned}} \right)\end{aligned}\)

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The matrix as a product of two matrices

From the above matrix multiplication concept,

\(\begin{aligned}{c}PQ = P\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{{{\bf{q}}_1}}&{{{\bf{q}}_2}}& \cdots &{{{\bf{q}}_n}}\end{aligned}} \right)\\ = \left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{P{{\bf{q}}_1}}&{P{{\bf{q}}_2}}& \cdots &{P{{\bf{q}}_n}}\end{aligned}} \right)\end{aligned}\)

In reverse order, it can be represented as shown below:

\(\begin{aligned}{c}\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{P{{\bf{q}}_1}}&{P{{\bf{q}}_2}}& \cdots &{P{{\bf{q}}_n}}\end{aligned}} \right) = P\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{{{\bf{q}}_1}}&{{{\bf{q}}_2}}& \cdots &{{{\bf{q}}_n}}\end{aligned}} \right)\\ = PQ\end{aligned}\)

It is given that\(\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{Q{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{Q{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right)\), which can be written as shownbelow:

\(\begin{aligned}{c}\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{Q{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{Q{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right) = Q\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right)\\ = QR\end{aligned}\)

Here,\({{\bf{r}}_1},{{\bf{r}}_2}, \ldots ,{{\bf{r}}_p}\)are the columns of matrix Q, or \(\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right) = R\).

Thus,\(\left( {\begin{aligned}{*{20}{c}}{Q{{\bf{r}}_1}}& \cdots &{Q{{\bf{r}}_p}}\end{aligned}} \right) = QR\).

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