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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Is the product of commuting skew-symmetric matrices skew- symmetric? Explain

OpenStudy (anonymous):

AB\[(AB)^{T} = B^{T}A^{T} = (-B)(-A) = BA = AB \neq -AB\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

thanks @cng99 that therefore it is not skew-symmetric.

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