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Table 1 Related notations

From: GAMP-SBL-based channel estimation for millimeter-wave MIMO systems

Notations

Definitions

capital bold letters

Matrices

lowercase bold letters

Vectors

\({{[\cdot ]}^{*}}\)

Conjugate operator

\({{[\cdot ]}^{H}}\)

Conjugate transpose operator

\({{[\cdot ]}^{T}}\)

Transpose operator

\({[ \cdot ]^{ - 1}}\)

Inverse operator

\({\left\| {{\mathbf {X}}} \right\| _F}\)

Frobenius norm of \({{\mathbf {X}}}\)

\({\left\| {{\mathbf {x}}} \right\| _2}\)

\({l_2}\) norm of \({{\mathbf {x}}}\)

\(\otimes\)

Kronecker product

\(\odot\)

Khatri–Rao product

\(diag({{\mathbf {x}}})\)

Diagonal matrix with elements of \({{\mathbf {x}}}\) on its diagonal

\(vec({{\mathbf {X}}})\)

Vectorization operation of \({{\mathbf {X}}}\)

\(vecd({{\mathbf {X}}})\)

Vectorization operation of diagonal elements of \({{\mathbf {X}}}\)

\({{\text {Re}} \left\{ \cdot \right\} }\)

Real part operator

\({{\text {Im}} \left\{ \cdot \right\} }\)

Imaginary part operator

\({E( \cdot )}\)

Expectation operator

\({\det ( \cdot )}\)

Determinant operator