Describes in mathematics a linear transformation which converts the matrix into a column vector
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In mathematics, especially in linear algebra and matrix theory, the vectorization of a matrix is a linear transformation which converts the matrix into a vector. Specifically, the vectorization of a m × n matrix A, denoted vec(A), is the mn × 1 column vector obtained by stacking the columns of the matrix A on top of one another: Here, represents the element in the i-th row and j-th column of A, and the superscript denotes the transpose. In other words, vec(A) is a vector containing the entries of A in column-major order.