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In mathematics, a jacket matrix is a square symmetric matrix of order n if its entries are non-zero and real, complex, or from a finite field, and

where In is the identity matrix, and
where T denotes the transpose of the matrix.
In other words, the inverse of a jacket matrix is determined by its element-wise or block-wise inverse. The definition above may also be expressed as:
The jacket matrix is a generalization of the Hadamard matrix; it is a diagonal block-wise inverse matrix.
| n | .... −2, −1, 0 1, 2,..... | logarithm |
| 2n | .... 1, 2, 4, ... | series |
As shown in the table, i.e. in the series, for example with n=2, forward: , inverse : , then, . That is, there exists an element-wise inverse.
or more general
For m x m matrices,
denotes an mn x mn block diagonal Jacket matrix.
Therefore,
Also,
Finally,
A·B = B·A = I
Consider be 2x2 block matrices of order
If and are pxp Jacket matrix, then is a block circulant matrix if and only if , where rt denotes the reciprocal transpose.
Let and , then the matrix is given by
where U, C, A, G denotes the amount of the DNA nucleobases and the matrix is the block circulant Jacket matrix which leads to the principle of the Antagonism with Nirenberg Genetic Code matrix.