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3.3. NONLINEAR MULTIVARIATE EQUATIONS: DISTRIBUTED 83<br />

3.3.5 A Matrix Formulation<br />

Equation (3.13) showed how a family <strong>of</strong> linear equations can be represented as<br />

a matrix equation. We can do the same with nonlinear equations: (3.22) can<br />

be written as<br />

⎛ ⎞<br />

(<br />

1 0 0 0<br />

)<br />

−1<br />

0 1 0 0 −1<br />

⎜<br />

⎝<br />

x 2<br />

xy<br />

x<br />

y<br />

1<br />

⎟<br />

⎠ = 0 (3.26)<br />

However, this does not give us an obvious solution. Rather, we need to extend<br />

the system, allowing not just the original equations, but also y times the first<br />

and x times the second, to give the following.<br />

Elimination in this gives us<br />

⎛<br />

x 2 y<br />

⎛<br />

⎞<br />

1 0 0 0 −1 0<br />

x 2<br />

⎜ 0 1 0 0 0 −1 ⎟<br />

xy<br />

⎝<br />

⎠<br />

1 0 0 −1 0 0 ⎜ x<br />

⎝<br />

0 0 1 0 0 −1 y<br />

1<br />

⎛<br />

x 2 y<br />

⎛<br />

⎞<br />

1 0 0 0 −1 0<br />

x 2<br />

⎜ 0 1 0 0 0 −1 ⎟<br />

xy<br />

⎝<br />

⎠<br />

0 0 0 −1 1 0 ⎜ x<br />

⎝<br />

0 0 1 0 0 −1 y<br />

1<br />

⎞<br />

= 0. (3.27)<br />

⎟<br />

⎠<br />

⎞<br />

= 0, (3.28)<br />

⎟<br />

⎠<br />

which produces, as the third row, the equation y − x, as we do (up to a change<br />

<strong>of</strong> sign) after (3.22). In pure linear algebra, we can do no further, since we really<br />

require y times this equation. This means considering<br />

⎛<br />

x 2 y 2<br />

⎛<br />

⎞<br />

x<br />

1 0 0 0 0 0 −1 0 0<br />

2 y<br />

x 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 −1 0<br />

2<br />

xy 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 −1<br />

2<br />

xy<br />

⎜ 1 0 0 0 −1 0 0 0 0 ⎟<br />

⎝<br />

⎠<br />

x<br />

0 1 0 0 0 −1 0 0 0<br />

⎜ y<br />

0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 −1<br />

2<br />

⎝<br />

y<br />

1<br />

⎞<br />

= 0. (3.29)<br />

⎟<br />

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