Please help me understand the following notation

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Can someone kindly tell me the meaning of the following notation:

A book defined the following matrix $(a_{ij})_{3\times 3}$ :

$a_{ij}=\begin{cases} d_{ij}& i\neq j\\d_{ii}+\sum_{j=1}^3 d_{ij}&i=j\end{cases}$

where $d_{ij}$ are elements defined for $1\le i,j\le 3$.

I dont understand the case for $i=j$

Does it mean $d_{11}=d_{11}+d_{12}+d_{13}$?

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I agree with Theo Bendit's comment re: the reuse of a variable in the summation, as it tends to confuse people. Thus, I will rephrase it to give that, for $i = j$, the notation means $a_{ii} = d_{ii} + \sum_{k=1}^3 d_{ik} = d_{ii} + d_{i1} + d_{i2} + d_{i3}$. Thus, for example, $a_{11} = d_{11} + d_{11} + d_{12} + d_{13} = 2d_{11} + d_{12} + d_{13}$.

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\begin{aligned} a_{11} & = d_{11} + d _{11} + d_{12} + d _{13} \\ a_{12} & = d_{12} \\ a_{13} & = d_{13} \\ a_{21} & = d_{21} \\ a_{22} & = d_{22} + d _{21} + d_{22} + d _{23} \\ a_{23} & = d_{23} \\ a_{31} & = d_{31} \\ a_{32} & = d_{32} \\ a_{33} & = d_{33} + d _{31} + d_{32} + d _{33} \end{aligned}

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We have for $1\leq i,j\leq 3$

\begin{align*} a_{ij}&= \begin{cases} d_{ij}\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad i\neq j\\ d_{ii}+\sum_{\color{blue}{j}=1}^3 d_{i\color{blue}{j}}\quad\qquad i=j \end{cases}\tag{1}\\ &= \begin{cases} d_{ij}\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad i\neq j\\ d_{ii}+\left(\sum_{\color{blue}{j}=1}^3 d_{i\color{blue}{j}}\right)\quad\,\,\,\, i=j \end{cases}\tag{2}\\ &= \begin{cases} d_{ij}\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad i\neq j\\ d_{ii}+\sum_{k=1}^3 d_{ik}\quad\qquad i=j \end{cases}\\ \end{align*}

These variants are all valid and represent the same.

  • In (1) and (2) readability is reduced somewhat due to the multiple usage of $j$, on the one hand as bound index variable and on the other hand as free variable.

  • The scope of the index variable $\color{blue}{j}$ is indicated in (2) by parenthesis.