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Nonsingularity of the latter requires that B −1 exist since it equals B(I + VA −1 UB) and the rank of the latter cannot exceed the rank of B. [7] Since B is invertible, the two B terms flanking the parenthetical quantity inverse in the right-hand side can be replaced with (B −1) −1, which results in the original Woodbury identity.
If this is the case, then the matrix B is uniquely determined by A, and is called the (multiplicative) inverse of A, denoted by A −1. Matrix inversion is the process of finding the matrix which when multiplied by the original matrix gives the identity matrix. [2] Over a field, a square matrix that is not invertible is called singular or ...
In matrix inversion however, instead of vector b, we have matrix B, where B is an n-by-p matrix, so that we are trying to find a matrix X (also a n-by-p matrix): = =. We can use the same algorithm presented earlier to solve for each column of matrix X. Now suppose that B is the identity matrix of size n.
Use of the partial inverse in numerical analysis is due to the fact that there is some flexibility in the choices of pivots, allowing for non-invertible elements to be avoided, and because the operation of rotation (of the graph of the pivoted matrix) has better numerical stability than the shearing operation which is implicitly performed by ...
An involutory matrix which is also symmetric is an orthogonal matrix, and thus represents an isometry (a linear transformation which preserves Euclidean distance). Conversely every orthogonal involutory matrix is symmetric. [3] As a special case of this, every reflection and 180° rotation matrix is involutory.
The graph of an involution (on the real numbers) is symmetric across the line y = x. This is due to the fact that the inverse of any general function will be its reflection over the line y = x. This can be seen by "swapping" x with y. If, in particular, the function is an involution, then its graph is its own reflection.
This is used in the special number field sieve to allow numbers of the form x 11 ± 1, x 13 ± 1, x 15 ± 1 and x 21 ± 1 to be factored taking advantage of the algebraic factors by using polynomials of degree 5, 6, 4 and 6 respectively – note that φ (Euler's totient function) of the exponents are 10, 12, 8 and 12.
Thus every shear matrix has an inverse, and the inverse is simply a shear matrix with the shear element negated, representing a shear transformation in the opposite direction. In fact, this is part of an easily derived more general result: if S is a shear matrix with shear element λ, then S n is a shear matrix whose shear element is simply nλ.