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Reciprocation of Triply Partitioned Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

E. Kosko*
Affiliation:
Avro Aircraft Limited, Malton, Canada

Extract

In a recent note Professor Duncan gives a method for finding the reciprocal of a matrix which is triply partitioned both horizontally and vertically. In spite of the apparent complication of the formulae, such a procedure may shorten the calculations in the case when the submatrices involved are especially simple (e.g. null or diagonal), or when their arrangement exhibits some symmetry. In Ref. 1, the submatrices a to j of the desired reciprocal are obtained by a series of operations summarised in equations (3) to (19); these operations consist altogether of 5 inversions of submatrices, 29 matrix multiplications of various orders and 15 matrix additions.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1956

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References

1. Duncan, W. J. (1956). Reciprocation of Triply Partitioned Matrices. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 60, p. 131, February 1956.Google Scholar
2. Kosko, E. Matrix Inversion by Partitioning. To be published in The Aeronautical Quarterly.Google Scholar