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cleanup functions of Hermitian matrices (#55951)
The functions of Hermitian matrices are a bit of a mess. For example, if we have a Hermitian matrix `a` with negative eigenvalues, `a^0.5` doesn't produce the `Symmetric` wrapper, but `sqrt(a)` does. On the other hand, if we have a positive definite `b`, `b^0.5` will be `Hermitian`, but `sqrt(b)` will be `Symmetric`: ```julia using LinearAlgebra a = Hermitian([1.0 2.0;2.0 1.0]) a^0.5 sqrt(a) b = Hermitian([2.0 1.0; 1.0 2.0]) b^0.5 sqrt(b) ``` This sort of arbitrary assignment of wrappers happens with pretty much all functions defined there. There's also some oddities, such as `cis` being the only function defined for `SymTridiagonal`, even though all `eigen`-based functions work, and `cbrt` being the only function not defined for complex Hermitian matrices. I did a cleanup: I defined all functions for `SymTridiagonal` and `Hermitian{<:Complex}`, and always assigned the appropriate wrapper, preserving the input one when possible. There's an inconsistency remaining that I didn't fix, that only `sqrt` and `log` accept a tolerance argument, as changing that is probably breaking. There were also hardly any tests that I could find (only `exp`, `log`, `cis`, and `sqrt`). I'm happy to add them if it's desired.
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