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Although an explicit inverse is not necessary to estimate the vector of unknowns, it is the easiest way to estimate their accuracy, found in the diagonal of a matrix inverse (the posterior covariance matrix of the vector of unknowns). However, faster algorithms to compute only the diagonal entries of a matrix inverse are known in many cases. [19]
A matrix (in this case the right-hand side of the Sherman–Morrison formula) is the inverse of a matrix (in this case +) if and only if = =. We first verify that the right hand side ( Y {\displaystyle Y} ) satisfies X Y = I {\displaystyle XY=I} .
A matrix with entries in a field is invertible precisely if its determinant is nonzero. This follows from the multiplicativity of the determinant and the formula for the inverse involving the adjugate matrix mentioned below. In this event, the determinant of the inverse matrix is given by
When A is an invertible matrix there is a matrix A −1 that represents a transformation that "undoes" A since its composition with A is the identity matrix. In some practical applications, inversion can be computed using general inversion algorithms or by performing inverse operations (that have obvious geometric interpretation, like rotating ...
is a rotation matrix, as is the matrix of any even permutation, and rotates through 120° about the axis x = y = z. The 3 × 3 matrix = [] has determinant +1, but is not orthogonal (its transpose is not its inverse), so it is not a rotation matrix. The 4 × 3 matrix
A variant of Gaussian elimination called Gauss–Jordan elimination can be used for finding the inverse of a matrix, if it exists. If A is an n × n square matrix, then one can use row reduction to compute its inverse matrix, if it exists. First, the n × n identity matrix is augmented to the right of A, forming an n × 2n block matrix [A | I]
In mathematics, specifically linear algebra, the Woodbury matrix identity – named after Max A. Woodbury [1] [2] – says that the inverse of a rank-k correction of some matrix can be computed by doing a rank-k correction to the inverse of the original matrix.
This gives a formula for the inverse of A, provided det(A) ≠ 0. In fact, this formula works whenever F is a commutative ring , provided that det( A ) is a unit . If det( A ) is not a unit, then A is not invertible over the ring (it may be invertible over a larger ring in which some non-unit elements of F may be invertible).