look at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/symmat2.pdf
and see if that helps. or maybe you have already seen it?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Shahir Molaei
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:07 AM
> To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Matrices of indefinite size
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
> I need Maxima to give me the ability to define an square
> matrix of size n - with n indefinite- and then give its
> coponents in the sense that the (i,j)-th component is some
>...