Re: decompose a matrix
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- Subject: [mg59337] Re: [mg59301] decompose a matrix
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 01:29:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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ARe you sure that's what you want to do? The usual thing for a symmetric matrix M is to diagonalize it as M == P . D . Transpose[P] where P is an orthogonal matrix and D is diagonal. Tun Myint Aung wrote: > Dear Mathgroup, > > I would like to decompose a matrix in to the form M == > L*D*Transpose[L] where M is the symmetric matrix, L is the lower > triangular matrix and D is the diagonal matrix. -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- From: "Tun Myint Aung" <tma@nus.edu.sg>
- decompose a matrix