Merge pull request #117 from fjosw/feat/is_matrix_symmetric

is_matrix_symmetric

pyerrors/correlators.py

@@ -237,13 +237,30 @@ class Corr:
             raise Exception("Corr could not be symmetrized: No redundant values")
         return Corr(newcontent, prange=self.prange)
 
+    def is_matrix_symmetric(self):
+        """Checks whether a correlator matrices is symmetric on every timeslice."""
+        if self.N == 1:
+            raise Exception("Only works for correlator matrices.")
+        for t in range(self.T):
+            if self[t] is None:
+                continue
+            for i in range(self.N):
+                for j in range(i + 1, self.N):
+                    if self[t][i, j] is self[t][j, i]:
+                        continue
+                    if hash(self[t][i, j]) != hash(self[t][j, i]):
+                        return False
+        return True
+
     def matrix_symmetric(self):
         """Symmetrizes the correlator matrices on every timeslice."""
-        if self.N > 1:
-            transposed = [None if _check_for_none(self, G) else G.T for G in self.content]
-            return 0.5 * (Corr(transposed) + self)
         if self.N == 1:
             raise Exception("Trying to symmetrize a correlator matrix, that already has N=1.")
+        if self.is_matrix_symmetric():
+            return 1.0 * self
+        else:
+            transposed = [None if _check_for_none(self, G) else G.T for G in self.content]
+            return 0.5 * (Corr(transposed) + self)
 
     def GEVP(self, t0, ts=None, sort="Eigenvalue", **kwargs):
         r'''Solve the generalized eigenvalue problem on the correlator matrix and returns the corresponding eigenvectors.
@@ -284,7 +301,11 @@ class Corr:
             warnings.warn("Argument 'sorted_list' is deprecated, use 'sort' instead.", DeprecationWarning)
             sort = kwargs.get("sorted_list")
 
-        symmetric_corr = self.matrix_symmetric()
+        if self.is_matrix_symmetric():
+            symmetric_corr = self
+        else:
+            symmetric_corr = self.matrix_symmetric()
+
         if sort is None:
             if (ts is None):
                 raise Exception("ts is required if sort=None.")