Therefore 2aii = 0 or aii = 0 for all i’s This means that all the diagonal elements of a skew symmetric matrix are zero Rationalised 2023-24
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For example, the matrix 
0
B
0
0
e
f
e
g
f
g




=
−



−
−


 is a skew symmetric matrix as B′= –B
Now, we are going to prove some results of symmetric and skew-symmetric
matrices Theorem 1 For any square matrix A with real number entries, A + A′ is a symmetric
matrix and A – A′ is a skew symmetric matrix