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 | | The Wronskian matrix is created by putting each function as the first element of each column, and filling in the rest of each column by the (i-1)-th derivative, where i is the current row. |
 | | In> A:={{4,-2,4,2},{-2,10,-2,-7},{4,-2,8,4},{2,-7,4,7}} Out> {{4,-2,4,2},{-2,10,-2,-7},{4,-2,8,4},{2,-7,4,7}}; In> R:=Cholesky(A); Out> {{2,-1,2,1},{0,3,0,-2},{0,0,2,1},{0,0,0,1}}; In> Transpose(R)*R = A Out> True; In> Cholesky(4*Identity(5)) Out> {{2,0,0,0,0},{0,2,0,0,0},{0,0,2,0,0},{0,0,0,2,0},{0,0,0,0,2}}; In> Cholesky(HilbertMatrix(3)) Out> {{1,1/2,1/3},{0,Sqrt(1/12),Sqrt(1/12)},{0,0,Sqrt(1/180)}}; In> Cholesky(ToeplitzMatrix({1,2,3})) In function "Check" : CommandLine(1) : "Cholesky: Matrix is not positive definite" |
 | | The minor is the determinant of the matrix obtained from M by deleting the i-th row and the j-th column. |
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