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CholeskyDecomposition
CholeskyDecomposition
[
m
]
gives the Cholesky decomposition of a matrix
m
.
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The matrix
m
can be numerical or symbolic, but must be Hermitian and positive definite.
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CholeskyDecomposition
[
m
]
yields an upper-triangular matrix
u
so that
ConjugateTranspose[
u
].
u
m
.
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The matrix is positive definite:
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LUDecomposition
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LinearSolveFunction
FindMinimum
PseudoInverse
QRDecomposition
HermitianMatrixQ
PositiveDefiniteMatrixQ
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