Matrix similarity
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In linear algebra, two n-by-n matrices A and B are called similar if there exists an invertible n-by-n matrix P such that
Similar matrices represent the same linear map under two (possibly) different bases, with P being the change of basis matrix.[1][2]
A transformation A ↦ P−1AP is called a similarity transformation or conjugation of the matrix A. In the general linear group, similarity is therefore the same as conjugacy, and similar matrices are also called conjugate; however, in a given subgroup H of the general linear group, the notion of conjugacy may be more restrictive than similarity, since it requires that P be chosen to lie in H.