SOLUTION: The symmetrix positive definite matrix A = {{{(matrix ( 3, 3, 16, -8, -4, -8, 29, 12, -4, 12, 41))}}} can be written as the product of a lower triangular matrix L= {{{(m

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Question 1046540: The symmetrix positive definite matrix
A =
can be written as the product of a lower triangular matrix
L=
and it's transpose , that is .
Find L and .

Answer by ikleyn(52810)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For some useful info related to this subject see this Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesky_decomposition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesky_decomposition


Somewhere in the beginning of 80-ies I was in need to have my own computer program (subroutine) based on this algorithm 
(Cholesky LU-decomposition) to use it in the more wide finite element code for solving systems of linear equations.

I was lucky: I found very good description of the algorithm in the book by Wilkinson and Reinsch "Handbook for Automatic Computations". 

I learned this algorithm, wrote the subroutine, wrote the entire finite-element code and used it during some years, 
making my research computer simulations.

It worked successfully in solving matrix equations of the size 1000 - 3000 - 5000 in one (in each of the two) matrix dimensions.

For more grandiose matrices the algorithm lost its effectiveness, and other methods were required.  

Some reminiscences . . .

Surely, I know the algorithm, but its presentation requires a lot of writing.

This is why I refer you to that article.

See also in the Internet with keywords "Cholesky decomposition", "LU-decomposition" . . .

Also, good sources of information are the books
    - "Numerical recipies, vol. I"     (classic)
    - "LINPACK user's guide" (1979) by Dongarra and others . . .     (classic too)

As well as any authoritative contemporary guide/textbook on Matrix Computations.

In nowadays, you can even find an online matrix calculator in the Internet making LU-decomposition for free ! ! !

I just found one such a calculator for you under the link
http://comnuan.com/cmnn0100d/

http://comnuan.com/cmnn0100d/


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