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Roberts orthogonality for \({2 \times 2}\) complex matrices

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We give a complete description of matrices A and B from \({\mathbb{M}_{2}(\mathbb{C})}\) which are Roberts orthogonal to each other. Necessary and sufficient conditions for Roberts orthogonality of A and B are also given in terms of traces of matrices.

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This work has been fully supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2016-06-1046.

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Arambašić, L., Rajić, R. Roberts orthogonality for \({2 \times 2}\) complex matrices. Acta Math. Hungar. 157, 220–228 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-018-0870-3

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