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<semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mover> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="bold">x</mi> </mrow> <mo>&#x02D9;<!-- ˙ --></mo> </mover> </mrow> </mrow> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>=</mo> <mi>A</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="bold">x</mi> </mrow> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\dot {\mathbf {x} }}(t)=A(t)\mathbf {x} (t)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/b58e9e1bf922ca3bd810fdb1b96d4f653d70e9d1" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-display mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:15.61ex; height:2.843ex;" 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independence">linearly independent</a> solutions of the system.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Then every solution to the system can be written as <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbf {x} (t)=\Psi (t)\mathbf {c} }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="bold">x</mi> </mrow> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>=</mo> <mi mathvariant="normal">&#x03A8;<!-- Ψ --></mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="bold">c</mi> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mathbf {x} 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class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.808ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \Psi }"></span> is a fundamental matrix of <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\dot {\mathbf {x} }}(t)=A(t)\mathbf {x} (t)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mover> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="bold">x</mi> </mrow> <mo>&#x02D9;<!-- ˙ --></mo> </mover> </mrow> </mrow> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mo>=</mo> <mi>A</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="bold">x</mi> </mrow> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo 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title="Symmetric matrix">Symmetric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toeplitz_matrix" title="Toeplitz matrix">Toeplitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triangular_matrix" title="Triangular matrix">Triangular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tridiagonal_matrix" title="Tridiagonal matrix">Tridiagonal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vandermonde_matrix" title="Vandermonde matrix">Vandermonde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walsh_matrix" title="Walsh matrix">Walsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Z-matrix_(mathematics)" title="Z-matrix (mathematics)">Z</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Constant</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Exchange_matrix" title="Exchange matrix">Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilbert_matrix" title="Hilbert matrix">Hilbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Identity_matrix" title="Identity matrix">Identity</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Defective_matrix" title="Defective matrix">Defective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Definite_matrix" title="Definite matrix">Definite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diagonalizable_matrix" title="Diagonalizable matrix">Diagonalizable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hurwitz-stable_matrix" title="Hurwitz-stable matrix">Hurwitz-stable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Positive-definite_matrix" class="mw-redirect" title="Positive-definite matrix">Positive-definite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stieltjes_matrix" title="Stieltjes matrix">Stieltjes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Satisfying conditions on <a href="/wiki/Matrix_product" class="mw-redirect" title="Matrix product">products</a> or <a href="/wiki/Inverse_of_a_matrix" class="mw-redirect" title="Inverse of a matrix">inverses</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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unimodular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weighing_matrix" title="Weighing matrix">Weighing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">With specific applications</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adjugate_matrix" title="Adjugate matrix">Adjugate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alternating_sign_matrix" title="Alternating sign matrix">Alternating sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augmented_matrix" title="Augmented matrix">Augmented</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9zout_matrix" title="Bézout matrix">Bézout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carleman_matrix" title="Carleman matrix">Carleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cartan_matrix" title="Cartan matrix">Cartan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circulant_matrix" title="Circulant matrix">Circulant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cofactor_matrix" class="mw-redirect" title="Cofactor matrix">Cofactor</a></li> 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href="/wiki/Totally_positive_matrix" title="Totally positive matrix">Totally positive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transformation_matrix" title="Transformation matrix">Transformation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Used in <a href="/wiki/Statistics" title="Statistics">statistics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centering_matrix" title="Centering matrix">Centering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Correlation_matrix" class="mw-redirect" title="Correlation matrix">Correlation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covariance_matrix" title="Covariance matrix">Covariance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Design_matrix" title="Design matrix">Design</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doubly_stochastic_matrix" title="Doubly stochastic matrix">Doubly stochastic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fisher_information_matrix" class="mw-redirect" title="Fisher 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<li><a href="/wiki/Incidence_matrix" title="Incidence matrix">Incidence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laplacian_matrix" title="Laplacian matrix">Laplacian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seidel_adjacency_matrix" title="Seidel adjacency matrix">Seidel adjacency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tutte_matrix" title="Tutte matrix">Tutte</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Used in science and engineering</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cabibbo%E2%80%93Kobayashi%E2%80%93Maskawa_matrix" title="Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix">Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Density_matrix" title="Density matrix">Density</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fundamental_matrix_(computer_vision)" title="Fundamental matrix (computer vision)">Fundamental (computer vision)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuzzy_associative_matrix" title="Fuzzy 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