%0 Journal Article
%T Euclidean Distance degrees of real algebraic groups
%A Jasmijn A. Baaijens
%A Jan Draisma
%J Mathematics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%X We study the problem of finding, in a real algebraic matrix group, the matrix closest to a given data matrix. We do so from the algebro-geometric perspective of Euclidean distance degrees. We recover several classical results; and among the new results that we prove is a formula for the Euclidean distance degree of special linear groups.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0422v1