Ivan Shishkin, Rye (1878)

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The set of orthogonal matrices contains only trivial intervals

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Let A,BOn(R)A,B\in\mathcal{O}_{n}(\R) be two orthogonal matrices.

Give a necessary and sufficient condition that must hold for these matrices so that A+B2\frac{A+B}{2} is also orthogonal.

Conclude that On(R)\mathcal{O}_{n}(\R) contains no nontrivial intervals, hence it is not convex.

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