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On Gaussian elimination and determinant formulas for matrices with chordal inverses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Mihály Bakonyi
Mihály Bakonyi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA 23187-8795, United States of America
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Abstract

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In this paper a formula is obtained for the entries of the diagonal factor in the U D L factorisation of an invertible operator matrix in the case when its inverse has a chordal graph. As a consequence, in the finite dimensional case a determinant formula is obtained in terms of some key principal minors. After a cancellation process this formula leads to a determinant formula from an earlier paper by W.W. Barrett and C.R. Johnson, deriving in this way a different and shorter proof of their result. Finally, an algorithmic method of constructing minimal vertex separators of chordal graphs is presented.

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , December 1992 , pp. 435 - 440
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1992

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