1.II.8A
Given a non-zero vector , any symmetric matrix can be expressed as
for some numbers and , some vector and a symmetric matrix , where
and the summation convention is implicit.
Show that the above statement is true by finding and explicitly in terms of and , or otherwise. Explain why and together provide a space of the correct dimension to parameterise an arbitrary symmetric matrix .
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