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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. »
CholeskyDecomposition[m] yields an upper-triangular matrix u so that ConjugateTranspose[u].u==m. »

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LUDecomposition LinearSolve LinearSolveFunction FindMinimum PseudoInverse QRDecomposition HermitianMatrixQ PositiveDefiniteMatrixQ

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