On 24-08-2013, at 23:13, Sebastian Hersberger <sebastian.hersber...@unibas.ch> 
wrote:

> Thanks. I restate my problem/question and hope its better understandable now.
> 
> Let us define A and B as kxk matrices. C is the output (matrix), which I try 
> to calculate for differnt i values. 
> 
> So for example: I want to caluclate the matrix C for the value i=10:
> 
> Therefore, I set:
> 
> i <- c(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
> 
> Finally, I have to define the summation formula in R. My question is how this 
> following summation formula has to be applied to R.
> 
> The arithmetic form of the formula equals:
> 
> C = (Σ(from i=0 to i)  A^i ) x B x (Σ(from i=0 to i) A^i )’
> 
> Which means: 
> matrix C equals the sum from i=0 to i times matrix A to the power of i
> times matrix B
> times the transposed/invers of the sum from i=0 to i times matrix A to the 
> power of i


This is not the same (inner) summation as in the first post where i starts at 1 
and goes to j-1.

Original: (Σ_(i=1)^(j-1) A^i ) B (Σ_(i=1)^(j-1) A^i)’
That made me wonder what is supposed to happen when j=1? (Originally j started 
at 1 and stopped at n)

David's solution can be wrapped in a function like this

genAsum <- function(A,n,B) {
    tmp <- Reduce("+", lapply(0:n, FUN=function(j) A%^%j))
    tmp %*% B %*% t(tmp)
}


Berend
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