Re: Numerical Determinants
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- Subject: [mg13107] Re: Numerical Determinants
- From: hello at there.com (Rod Pinna)
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 03:44:10 -0400
- Organization: UWA
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In article <6nnb0k$5em at smc.vnet.net>, Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au> wrote: >Rod Pinna wrote: >Why not? Your problem is clearly a generalized eigenvalue problem. For >non-zero p you can rewrite A.x=p B.x as B.x=(1/p) A.x. For invertible >A you then have Inverse[A].B.x = (1/p) x which is the formula that >you're using. > Which probably indicates that I should have listened better in first year mathematics :) That was the idea I was following, but since it hadn't been mentioned as a method in a couple of the texts I consulted, I thought that there might be something I was missing. Basically, everything talks about inverting the B matrix, but then doesn't mention what to do in B in singular. As the above *seemed* obvious, I thought that there might be a reason it wasn't mentioned. Thanks for the advice. Rod. Rod Pinna (rpinnaX at XcivilX.uwa.edu.au Remove the X for email)