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85-416: Using these operations, a matrix can always be transformed into an upper triangular matrix (possibly bordered by rows or columns of zeros), and in fact one that is in row echelon form . Once all of the leading coefficients (the leftmost nonzero entry in each row) are 1, and every column containing a leading coefficient has zeros elsewhere, the matrix is said to be in reduced row echelon form . This final form

170-426: A finite field . If the coefficients are integers or rational numbers exactly represented, the intermediate entries can grow exponentially large, so the bit complexity is exponential. However, Bareiss' algorithm is a variant of Gaussian elimination that avoids this exponential growth of the intermediate entries; with the same arithmetic complexity of O( n ) , it has a bit complexity of O( n ) , and has therefore

255-494: A strongly-polynomial time complexity. Gaussian elimination and its variants can be used on computers for systems with thousands of equations and unknowns. However, the cost becomes prohibitive for systems with millions of equations. These large systems are generally solved using iterative methods . Specific methods exist for systems whose coefficients follow a regular pattern (see system of linear equations ). The first strongly-polynomial time algorithm for Gaussian elimination

340-448: A unit triangular matrix is not the same as the unit matrix , and a normed triangular matrix has nothing to do with the notion of matrix norm . All finite unitriangular matrices are unipotent . If all of the entries on the main diagonal of a (upper or lower) triangular matrix are also 0, the matrix is called strictly (upper or lower) triangular . All finite strictly triangular matrices are nilpotent of index at most n as

425-551: A , b ] given by the commutator ab − ba . The Lie algebra of all upper triangular matrices is a solvable Lie algebra . It is often referred to as a Borel subalgebra of the Lie algebra of all square matrices. All these results hold if upper triangular is replaced by lower triangular throughout; in particular the lower triangular matrices also form a Lie algebra. However, operations mixing upper and lower triangular matrices do not in general produce triangular matrices. For instance,

510-406: A common eigenvector) corresponds to this variety having a point (being non-empty), which is the content of the (weak) Nullstellensatz. In algebraic terms, these operators correspond to an algebra representation of the polynomial algebra in k variables. This is generalized by Lie's theorem , which shows that any representation of a solvable Lie algebra is simultaneously upper triangularizable,

595-417: A common eigenvector, and then inducting on dimension as before. This was proven by Frobenius, starting in 1878 for a commuting pair, as discussed at commuting matrices . As for a single matrix, over the complex numbers these can be triangularized by unitary matrices. The fact that commuting matrices have a common eigenvector can be interpreted as a result of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz : commuting matrices form

680-423: A commutative algebra K [ A 1 , … , A k ] {\displaystyle K[A_{1},\ldots ,A_{k}]} over K [ x 1 , … , x k ] {\displaystyle K[x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k}]} which can be interpreted as a variety in k -dimensional affine space, and the existence of a (common) eigenvalue (and hence

765-478: A consequence of the Cayley-Hamilton theorem . An atomic (upper or lower) triangular matrix is a special form of unitriangular matrix, where all of the off-diagonal elements are zero, except for the entries in a single column. Such a matrix is also called a Frobenius matrix , a Gauss matrix , or a Gauss transformation matrix . A block triangular matrix is a block matrix (partitioned matrix) that

850-418: A corollary, the following problems can be solved in strongly polynomial time with the same bit complexity: One possible problem is numerical instability , caused by the possibility of dividing by very small numbers. If, for example, the leading coefficient of one of the rows is very close to zero, then to row-reduce the matrix, one would need to divide by that number. This means that any error which existed for

935-412: A given kind (upper or lower) forms a group , indeed a Lie group , which is a subgroup of the general linear group of all invertible matrices. A triangular matrix is invertible precisely when its diagonal entries are invertible (non-zero). Over the real numbers, this group is disconnected, having 2 n {\displaystyle 2^{n}} components accordingly as each diagonal entry

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1020-407: A given system to row echelon form, from which one can tell whether there are no solutions, a unique solution, or infinitely many solutions. The second part (sometimes called back substitution ) continues to use row operations until the solution is found; in other words, it puts the matrix into reduced row echelon form. Another point of view, which turns out to be very useful to analyze the algorithm,

1105-1087: A leading coefficient, all of the other entries in that column are zero (which can be achieved by using elementary row operations of type 3). Suppose the goal is to find and describe the set of solutions to the following system of linear equations: 2 x + y − z = 8 ( L 1 ) − 3 x − y + 2 z = − 11 ( L 2 ) − 2 x + y + 2 z = − 3 ( L 3 ) {\displaystyle {\begin{alignedat}{4}2x&{}+{}&y&{}-{}&z&{}={}&8&\qquad (L_{1})\\-3x&{}-{}&y&{}+{}&2z&{}={}&-11&\qquad (L_{2})\\-2x&{}+{}&y&{}+{}&2z&{}={}&-3&\qquad (L_{3})\end{alignedat}}} The table below

1190-440: A lesson for solving simultaneous equations, which Newton then supplied. Cambridge University eventually published the notes as Arithmetica Universalis in 1707 long after Newton had left academic life. The notes were widely imitated, which made (what is now called) Gaussian elimination a standard lesson in algebra textbooks by the end of the 18th century. Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1810 devised a notation for symmetric elimination that

1275-564: A matrix into reduced row echelon form is sometimes called Gauss–Jordan elimination . In this case, the term Gaussian elimination refers to the process until it has reached its upper triangular, or (unreduced) row echelon form. For computational reasons, when solving systems of linear equations, it is sometimes preferable to stop row operations before the matrix is completely reduced. The process of row reduction makes use of elementary row operations , and can be divided into two parts. The first part (sometimes called forward elimination) reduces

1360-1138: A matrix that has a row echelon form like T = [ a ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ 0 0 b ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ 0 0 0 c ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ 0 0 0 0 0 0 d ∗ ∗ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ] , {\displaystyle T={\begin{bmatrix}a&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*\\0&0&b&*&*&*&*&*&*\\0&0&0&c&*&*&*&*&*\\0&0&0&0&0&0&d&*&*\\0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&e\\0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0&0\end{bmatrix}},} where

1445-459: A matrix to row echelon form . They are also used in Gauss–Jordan elimination to further reduce the matrix to reduced row echelon form . There are three types of elementary matrices, which correspond to three types of row operations (respectively, column operations): If E is an elementary matrix, as described below, to apply the elementary row operation to a matrix A , one multiplies A by

1530-958: A multiple of R k {\displaystyle R_{k}} by r i , k / r k , k , {\displaystyle r_{i,k}/r_{k,k},} where r i , k {\displaystyle r_{i,k}} and r k , k {\displaystyle r_{k,k}} are the entries in the pivot column of R i {\displaystyle R_{i}} and R k , {\displaystyle R_{k},} respectively. Bareiss variant consists, instead, of replacing R i {\displaystyle R_{i}} with r k , k R i − r i , k R k r k − 1 , k − 1 . {\textstyle {\frac {r_{k,k}R_{i}-r_{i,k}R_{k}}{r_{k-1,k-1}}}.} This produces

1615-482: A row echelon form that has the same zero entries as with the standard Gaussian elimination. Bareiss' main remark is that each matrix entry generated by this variant is the determinant of a submatrix of the original matrix. In particular, if one starts with integer entries, the divisions occurring in the algorithm are exact divisions resulting in integers. So, all intermediate entries and final entries are integers. Moreover, Hadamard inequality provides an upper bound on

1700-415: A system of linear equations, then using these row operations could make the problem easier. For each row in a matrix, if the row does not consist of only zeros, then the leftmost nonzero entry is called the leading coefficient (or pivot ) of that row. So if two leading coefficients are in the same column, then a row operation of type 3 could be used to make one of those coefficients zero. Then by using

1785-468: A total of approximately 2 n /3 operations. Thus it has a arithmetic complexity ( time complexity , where each arithmetic operation take a unit of time, independently of the size of the inputs) of O( n ) . This complexity is a good measure of the time needed for the whole computation when the time for each arithmetic operation is approximately constant. This is the case when the coefficients are represented by floating-point numbers or when they belong to

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1870-424: Is NP-hard . Therefore, if P ≠ NP , there cannot be a polynomial time analog of Gaussian elimination for higher-order tensors (matrices are array representations of order-2 tensors). As explained above, Gaussian elimination transforms a given m × n matrix A into a matrix in row-echelon form . In the following pseudocode , A[i, j] denotes the entry of the matrix A in row i and column j with

1955-447: Is lower block triangular if where A i j ∈ F n i × n j {\displaystyle A_{ij}\in \mathbb {F} ^{n_{i}\times n_{j}}} for all i , j = 1 , … , k {\displaystyle i,j=1,\ldots ,k} . A matrix that is similar to a triangular matrix is referred to as triangularizable . Abstractly, this

2040-437: Is nilpotent for all polynomials p in k non -commuting variables, where [ A i , A j ] {\displaystyle [A_{i},A_{j}]} is the commutator ; for commuting A i {\displaystyle A_{i}} the commutator vanishes so this holds. This was proven by Drazin, Dungey, and Gruenberg in 1951; a brief proof is given by Prasolov in 1994. One direction

2125-400: Is a diagonal matrix, with diagonal entries 1 everywhere except in the i th position, where it is m . So D i ( m ) A is the matrix produced from A by multiplying row i by m . Coefficient wise, the D i ( m ) matrix is defined by : The final type of row operation on a matrix A adds row j multiplied by a scalar m to row i . The corresponding elementary matrix is

2210-413: Is a lower triangular matrix and vice versa. A matrix which is both symmetric and triangular is diagonal. In a similar vein, a matrix which is both normal (meaning A A = AA , where A is the conjugate transpose ) and triangular is also diagonal. This can be seen by looking at the diagonal entries of A A and AA . The determinant and permanent of a triangular matrix equal the product of

2295-540: Is a square matrix obtained from the application of a single elementary row operation to the identity matrix . The elementary matrices generate the general linear group GL n ( F ) when F is a field . Left multiplication (pre-multiplication) by an elementary matrix represents elementary row operations , while right multiplication (post-multiplication) represents elementary column operations . Elementary row operations are used in Gaussian elimination to reduce

2380-470: Is a triangular matrix. A matrix A {\displaystyle A} is upper block triangular if where A i j ∈ F n i × n j {\displaystyle A_{ij}\in \mathbb {F} ^{n_{i}\times n_{j}}} for all i , j = 1 , … , k {\displaystyle i,j=1,\ldots ,k} . A matrix A {\displaystyle A}

2465-453: Is called lower triangular if all the entries above the main diagonal are zero. Similarly, a square matrix is called upper triangular if all the entries below the main diagonal are zero. Because matrix equations with triangular matrices are easier to solve, they are very important in numerical analysis . By the LU decomposition algorithm, an invertible matrix may be written as

2550-400: Is clear: if the matrices are simultaneously triangularisable, then [ A i , A j ] {\displaystyle [A_{i},A_{j}]} is strictly upper triangularizable (hence nilpotent), which is preserved by multiplication by any A k {\displaystyle A_{k}} or combination thereof – it will still have 0s on the diagonal in

2635-820: Is equivalent to stabilizing a flag : upper triangular matrices are precisely those that preserve the standard flag , which is given by the standard ordered basis ( e 1 , … , e n ) {\displaystyle (e_{1},\ldots ,e_{n})} and the resulting flag 0 < ⟨ e 1 ⟩ < ⟨ e 1 , e 2 ⟩ < ⋯ < ⟨ e 1 , … , e n ⟩ = K n . {\displaystyle 0<\left\langle e_{1}\right\rangle <\left\langle e_{1},e_{2}\right\rangle <\cdots <\left\langle e_{1},\ldots ,e_{n}\right\rangle =K^{n}.} All flags are conjugate (as

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2720-463: Is equivalent to this algebra being a Lie subalgebra of a Borel subalgebra . The basic result is that (over an algebraically closed field), the commuting matrices A , B {\displaystyle A,B} or more generally A 1 , … , A k {\displaystyle A_{1},\ldots ,A_{k}} are simultaneously triangularizable. This can be proven by first showing that commuting matrices have

2805-429: Is in echelon form because the zero row is at the bottom, and the leading coefficient of the second row (in the third column), is to the right of the leading coefficient of the first row (in the second column). A matrix is said to be in reduced row echelon form if furthermore all of the leading coefficients are equal to 1 (which can be achieved by using the elementary row operation of type 2), and in every column containing

2890-596: Is invertible if and only if the left block can be reduced to the identity matrix I ; in this case the right block of the final matrix is A . If the algorithm is unable to reduce the left block to I , then A is not invertible. For example, consider the following matrix: A = [ 2 − 1 0 − 1 2 − 1 0 − 1 2 ] . {\displaystyle A={\begin{bmatrix}2&-1&0\\-1&2&-1\\0&-1&2\end{bmatrix}}.} To find

2975-402: Is obtained by swapping row i and row j of the identity matrix . So T i,j A is the matrix produced by exchanging row i and row j of A . Coefficient wise, the matrix T i,j is defined by : The next type of row operation on a matrix A multiplies all elements on row i by m where m is a non-zero scalar (usually a real number). The corresponding elementary matrix

3060-479: Is often sufficient however, and in any case used in proving the Jordan normal form theorem. In the case of complex matrices, it is possible to say more about triangularization, namely, that any square matrix A has a Schur decomposition . This means that A is unitarily equivalent (i.e. similar, using a unitary matrix as change of basis) to an upper triangular matrix; this follows by taking an Hermitian basis for

3145-444: Is positive or negative. The identity component is invertible triangular matrices with positive entries on the diagonal, and the group of all invertible triangular matrices is a semidirect product of this group and the group of diagonal matrices with ± 1 {\displaystyle \pm 1} on the diagonal, corresponding to the components. Elementary row operations In mathematics , an elementary matrix

3230-524: Is so called because for lower triangular matrices, one first computes x 1 {\displaystyle x_{1}} , then substitutes that forward into the next equation to solve for x 2 {\displaystyle x_{2}} , and repeats through to x n {\displaystyle x_{n}} . In an upper triangular matrix, one works backwards, first computing x n {\displaystyle x_{n}} , then substituting that back into

3315-415: Is that row reduction produces a matrix decomposition of the original matrix. The elementary row operations may be viewed as the multiplication on the left of the original matrix by elementary matrices . Alternatively, a sequence of elementary operations that reduces a single row may be viewed as multiplication by a Frobenius matrix . Then the first part of the algorithm computes an LU decomposition , while

3400-400: Is the derived Lie algebra of b {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {b}}} , the Lie algebra of all upper triangular matrices; in symbols, n = [ b , b ] . {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {n}}=[{\mathfrak {b}},{\mathfrak {b}}].} In addition, n {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {n}}} is

3485-565: Is the product of its diagonal entries ( x − a 11 ) ( x − a 22 ) ⋯ ( x − a n n ) {\displaystyle (x-a_{11})(x-a_{22})\cdots (x-a_{nn})} . If the entries on the main diagonal of a (upper or lower) triangular matrix are all 1, the matrix is called (upper or lower) unitriangular . Other names used for these matrices are unit (upper or lower) triangular , or very rarely normed (upper or lower) triangular . However,

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3570-536: Is the quotient by d of the product of the elements of the diagonal of B : det ( A ) = ∏ diag ⁡ ( B ) d . {\displaystyle \det(A)={\frac {\prod \operatorname {diag} (B)}{d}}.} Computationally, for an n × n matrix, this method needs only O( n ) arithmetic operations, while using Leibniz formula for determinants requires ( n n ! ) {\displaystyle (n\,n!)} operations (number of summands in

3655-477: Is the row reduction process applied simultaneously to the system of equations and its associated augmented matrix . In practice, one does not usually deal with the systems in terms of equations, but instead makes use of the augmented matrix, which is more suitable for computer manipulations. The row reduction procedure may be summarized as follows: eliminate x from all equations below L 1 , and then eliminate y from all equations below L 2 . This will put

3740-1543: Is unique; in other words, it is independent of the sequence of row operations used. For example, in the following sequence of row operations (where two elementary operations on different rows are done at the first and third steps), the third and fourth matrices are the ones in row echelon form, and the final matrix is the unique reduced row echelon form. [ 1 3 1 9 1 1 − 1 1 3 11 5 35 ] → [ 1 3 1 9 0 − 2 − 2 − 8 0 2 2 8 ] → [ 1 3 1 9 0 − 2 − 2 − 8 0 0 0 0 ] → [ 1 0 − 2 − 3 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 ] {\displaystyle {\begin{bmatrix}1&3&1&9\\1&1&-1&1\\3&11&5&35\end{bmatrix}}\to {\begin{bmatrix}1&3&1&9\\0&-2&-2&-8\\0&2&2&8\end{bmatrix}}\to {\begin{bmatrix}1&3&1&9\\0&-2&-2&-8\\0&0&0&0\end{bmatrix}}\to {\begin{bmatrix}1&0&-2&-3\\0&1&1&4\\0&0&0&0\end{bmatrix}}} Using row operations to convert

3825-412: The general linear group acts transitively on bases), so any matrix that stabilises a flag is similar to one that stabilizes the standard flag. Any complex square matrix is triangularizable. In fact, a matrix A over a field containing all of the eigenvalues of A (for example, any matrix over an algebraically closed field ) is similar to a triangular matrix. This can be proven by using induction on

3910-911: The previous equation to solve for x n − 1 {\displaystyle x_{n-1}} , and repeating through x 1 {\displaystyle x_{1}} . Notice that this does not require inverting the matrix. The matrix equation L x = b can be written as a system of linear equations Observe that the first equation ( ℓ 1 , 1 x 1 = b 1 {\displaystyle \ell _{1,1}x_{1}=b_{1}} ) only involves x 1 {\displaystyle x_{1}} , and thus one can solve for x 1 {\displaystyle x_{1}} directly. The second equation only involves x 1 {\displaystyle x_{1}} and x 2 {\displaystyle x_{2}} , and thus can be solved once one substitutes in

3995-407: The product of a lower triangular matrix L and an upper triangular matrix U if and only if all its leading principal minors are non-zero. A matrix of the form is called a lower triangular matrix or left triangular matrix , and analogously a matrix of the form is called an upper triangular matrix or right triangular matrix . A lower or left triangular matrix is commonly denoted with

4080-511: The Lie algebra of the Lie group of unitriangular matrices. In fact, by Engel's theorem , any finite-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebra is conjugate to a subalgebra of the strictly upper triangular matrices, that is to say, a finite-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebra is simultaneously strictly upper triangularizable. Algebras of upper triangular matrices have a natural generalization in functional analysis which yields nest algebras on Hilbert spaces . The set of invertible triangular matrices of

4165-536: The Mathematical Art . Its use is illustrated in eighteen problems, with two to five equations. The first reference to the book by this title is dated to 179 AD, but parts of it were written as early as approximately 150 BC. It was commented on by Liu Hui in the 3rd century. The method in Europe stems from the notes of Isaac Newton . In 1670, he wrote that all the algebra books known to him lacked

4250-545: The absolute values of the intermediate and final entries, and thus a bit complexity of O ~ ( n 5 ) , {\displaystyle {\tilde {O}}(n^{5}),} using soft O notation . Moreover, as an upper bound on the size of final entries is known, a complexity O ~ ( n 4 ) {\displaystyle {\tilde {O}}(n^{4})} can be obtained with modular computation followed either by Chinese remaindering or Hensel lifting . As

4335-414: The algebra of matrices it generates, namely all polynomials in the A i , {\displaystyle A_{i},} denoted K [ A 1 , … , A k ] . {\displaystyle K[A_{1},\ldots ,A_{k}].} Simultaneous triangularizability means that this algebra is conjugate into the Lie subalgebra of upper triangular matrices, and

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4420-416: The algorithm. To explain how Gaussian elimination allows the computation of the determinant of a square matrix, we have to recall how the elementary row operations change the determinant: If Gaussian elimination applied to a square matrix A produces a row echelon matrix B , let d be the product of the scalars by which the determinant has been multiplied, using the above rules. Then the determinant of A

4505-401: The already solved value for x 1 {\displaystyle x_{1}} . Continuing in this way, the k {\displaystyle k} -th equation only involves x 1 , … , x k {\displaystyle x_{1},\dots ,x_{k}} , and one can solve for x k {\displaystyle x_{k}} using

4590-579: The basis columns. All of this applies also to the reduced row echelon form, which is a particular row echelon format. The number of arithmetic operations required to perform row reduction is one way of measuring the algorithm's computational efficiency. For example, to solve a system of n equations for n unknowns by performing row operations on the matrix until it is in echelon form, and then solving for each unknown in reverse order, requires n ( n + 1)/2 divisions, (2 n + 3 n − 5 n )/6 multiplications, and (2 n + 3 n − 5 n )/6 subtractions, for

4675-524: The case of commuting matrices being the abelian Lie algebra case, abelian being a fortiori solvable. More generally and precisely, a set of matrices A 1 , … , A k {\displaystyle A_{1},\ldots ,A_{k}} is simultaneously triangularisable if and only if the matrix p ( A 1 , … , A k ) [ A i , A j ] {\displaystyle p(A_{1},\ldots ,A_{k})[A_{i},A_{j}]}

4760-416: The characteristic polynomial of a triangular n × n matrix A is exactly that is, the unique degree n polynomial whose roots are the diagonal entries of A (with multiplicities). To see this, observe that x I − A {\displaystyle xI-A} is also triangular and hence its determinant det ( x I − A ) {\displaystyle \det(xI-A)}

4845-511: The diagonal entries, as can be checked by direct computation. In fact more is true: the eigenvalues of a triangular matrix are exactly its diagonal entries. Moreover, each eigenvalue occurs exactly k times on the diagonal, where k is its algebraic multiplicity , that is, its multiplicity as a root of the characteristic polynomial p A ( x ) = det ( x I − A ) {\displaystyle p_{A}(x)=\det(xI-A)} of A . In other words,

4930-478: The elementary matrix on the left, EA . The elementary matrix for any row operation is obtained by executing the operation on the identity matrix . This fact can be understood as an instance of the Yoneda lemma applied to the category of matrices. The first type of row operation on a matrix A switches all matrix elements on row i with their counterparts on a different row j . The corresponding elementary matrix

5015-474: The fact that A has an eigenvector, by taking the quotient space by the eigenvector and inducting to show that A stabilizes a flag, and is thus triangularizable with respect to a basis for that flag. A more precise statement is given by the Jordan normal form theorem, which states that in this situation, A is similar to an upper triangular matrix of a very particular form. The simpler triangularization result

5100-412: The flag. A set of matrices A 1 , … , A k {\displaystyle A_{1},\ldots ,A_{k}} are said to be simultaneously triangularisable if there is a basis under which they are all upper triangular; equivalently, if they are upper triangularizable by a single similarity matrix P. Such a set of matrices is more easily understood by considering

5185-538: The formula times the number of multiplications in each summand) , and recursive Laplace expansion requires O( n 2) operations if the sub-determinants are memorized for being computed only once (number of operations in a linear combination times the number of sub-determinants to compute, which are determined by their columns) . Even on the fastest computers, these two methods are impractical or almost impracticable for n above 20. A variant of Gaussian elimination called Gauss–Jordan elimination can be used for finding

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5270-411: The indices starting from 1. The transformation is performed in place , meaning that the original matrix is lost for being eventually replaced by its row-echelon form. This algorithm differs slightly from the one discussed earlier, by choosing a pivot with largest absolute value . Such a partial pivoting may be required if, at the pivot place, the entry of the matrix is zero. In any case, choosing

5355-417: 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 × 2 n block matrix [ A | I ] . Now through application of elementary row operations, find the reduced echelon form of this n × 2 n matrix. The matrix A

5440-665: The inverse of this matrix, one takes the following matrix augmented by the identity and row-reduces it as a 3 × 6 matrix: [ A | I ] = [ 2 − 1 0 1 0 0 − 1 2 − 1 0 1 0 0 − 1 2 0 0 1 ] . {\displaystyle [A|I]=\left[{\begin{array}{ccc|ccc}2&-1&0&1&0&0\\-1&2&-1&0&1&0\\0&-1&2&0&0&1\end{array}}\right].} By performing row operations, one can check that

5525-417: The largest possible absolute value of the pivot improves the numerical stability of the algorithm, when floating point is used for representing numbers. Upon completion of this procedure the matrix will be in row echelon form and the corresponding system may be solved by back substitution. Triangular matrix In mathematics, a triangular matrix is a special kind of square matrix . A square matrix

5610-499: The left product by an elementary matrix . Denoting by B the product of these elementary matrices, we showed, on the left, that BA = I , and therefore, B = A . On the right, we kept a record of BI = B , which we know is the inverse desired. This procedure for finding the inverse works for square matrices of any size. The Gaussian elimination algorithm can be applied to any m × n matrix A . In this way, for example, some 6 × 9 matrices can be transformed to

5695-521: The matrix is in echelon form, one could continue until the matrix is in reduced row echelon form, as it is done in the table. The process of row reducing until the matrix is reduced is sometimes referred to as Gauss–Jordan elimination, to distinguish it from stopping after reaching echelon form. The method of Gaussian elimination appears – albeit without proof – in the Chinese mathematical text Chapter Eight: Rectangular Arrays of The Nine Chapters on

5780-408: The number that was close to zero would be amplified. Gaussian elimination is numerically stable for diagonally dominant or positive-definite matrices. For general matrices, Gaussian elimination is usually considered to be stable, when using partial pivoting , even though there are examples of stable matrices for which it is unstable. Gaussian elimination can be performed over any field , not just

5865-451: The previously solved values for x 1 , … , x k − 1 {\displaystyle x_{1},\dots ,x_{k-1}} . The resulting formulas are: A matrix equation with an upper triangular matrix U can be solved in an analogous way, only working backwards. Forward substitution is used in financial bootstrapping to construct a yield curve . The transpose of an upper triangular matrix

5950-478: The procedure which ends in reduced echelon form. The name is used because it is a variation of Gaussian elimination as described by Wilhelm Jordan in 1888. However, the method also appears in an article by Clasen published in the same year. Jordan and Clasen probably discovered Gauss–Jordan elimination independently. Historically, the first application of the row reduction method is for solving systems of linear equations. Below are some other important applications of

6035-485: The real numbers. Buchberger's algorithm is a generalization of Gaussian elimination to systems of polynomial equations . This generalization depends heavily on the notion of a monomial order . The choice of an ordering on the variables is already implicit in Gaussian elimination, manifesting as the choice to work from left to right when selecting pivot positions. Computing the rank of a tensor of order greater than 2

6120-731: The reduced row echelon form of this augmented matrix is [ I | B ] = [ 1 0 0 3 4 1 2 1 4 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 4 1 2 3 4 ] . {\displaystyle [I|B]=\left[{\begin{array}{rrr|rrr}1&0&0&{\frac {3}{4}}&{\frac {1}{2}}&{\frac {1}{4}}\\0&1&0&{\frac {1}{2}}&1&{\frac {1}{2}}\\0&0&1&{\frac {1}{4}}&{\frac {1}{2}}&{\frac {3}{4}}\end{array}}\right].} One can think of each row operation as

6205-419: The row swapping operation, one can always order the rows so that for every non-zero row, the leading coefficient is to the right of the leading coefficient of the row above. If this is the case, then matrix is said to be in row echelon form. So the lower left part of the matrix contains only zeros, and all of the zero rows are below the non-zero rows. The word "echelon" is used here because one can roughly think of

6290-586: The rows being ranked by their size, with the largest being at the top and the smallest being at the bottom. For example, the following matrix is in row echelon form, and its leading coefficients are shown in red: [ 0 2 1 − 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 ] . {\displaystyle {\begin{bmatrix}0&\color {red}{\mathbf {2} }&1&-1\\0&0&\color {red}{\mathbf {3} }&1\\0&0&0&0\end{bmatrix}}.} It

6375-409: The second part writes the original matrix as the product of a uniquely determined invertible matrix and a uniquely determined reduced row echelon matrix. There are three types of elementary row operations which may be performed on the rows of a matrix: If the matrix is associated to a system of linear equations, then these operations do not change the solution set. Therefore, if one's goal is to solve

6460-498: The shape of a trapezoid . The matrix is lower triangular, and is upper triangular. A matrix equation in the form L x = b {\displaystyle L\mathbf {x} =\mathbf {b} } or U x = b {\displaystyle U\mathbf {x} =\mathbf {b} } is very easy to solve by an iterative process called forward substitution for lower triangular matrices and analogously back substitution for upper triangular matrices. The process

6545-460: The stars are arbitrary entries, and a , b , c , d , e are nonzero entries. This echelon matrix T contains a wealth of information about A : the rank of A is 5, since there are 5 nonzero rows in T ; the vector space spanned by the columns of A has a basis consisting of its columns 1, 3, 4, 7 and 9 (the columns with a , b , c , d , e in T ), and the stars show how the other columns of A can be written as linear combinations of

6630-416: The sum of an upper and a lower triangular matrix can be any matrix; the product of a lower triangular with an upper triangular matrix is not necessarily triangular either. The set of unitriangular matrices forms a Lie group . The set of strictly upper (or lower) triangular matrices forms a nilpotent Lie algebra , denoted n . {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {n}}.} This algebra

6715-409: The system into triangular form . Then, using back-substitution, each unknown can be solved for. The second column describes which row operations have just been performed. So for the first step, the x is eliminated from L 2 by adding ⁠ 3 / 2 ⁠ L 1 to L 2 . Next, x is eliminated from L 3 by adding L 1 to L 3 . These row operations are labelled in

6800-401: The table as L 2 + 3 2 L 1 → L 2 , L 3 + L 1 → L 3 . {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}L_{2}+{\tfrac {3}{2}}L_{1}&\to L_{2},\\L_{3}+L_{1}&\to L_{3}.\end{aligned}}} Once y is also eliminated from

6885-414: The third row, the result is a system of linear equations in triangular form, and so the first part of the algorithm is complete. From a computational point of view, it is faster to solve the variables in reverse order, a process known as back-substitution. One sees the solution is z = −1 , y = 3 , and x = 2 . So there is a unique solution to the original system of equations. Instead of stopping once

6970-461: The triangularizing basis. Upper triangularity is preserved by many operations: Together these facts mean that the upper triangular matrices form a subalgebra of the associative algebra of square matrices for a given size. Additionally, this also shows that the upper triangular matrices can be viewed as a Lie subalgebra of the Lie algebra of square matrices of a fixed size, where the Lie bracket [

7055-406: The variable L , and an upper or right triangular matrix is commonly denoted with the variable U or R . A matrix that is both upper and lower triangular is diagonal . Matrices that are similar to triangular matrices are called triangularisable . A non-square (or sometimes any) matrix with zeros above (below) the diagonal is called a lower (upper) trapezoidal matrix. The non-zero entries form

7140-434: Was adopted in the 19th century by professional hand computers to solve the normal equations of least-squares problems. The algorithm that is taught in high school was named for Gauss only in the 1950s as a result of confusion over the history of the subject. Some authors use the term Gaussian elimination to refer only to the procedure until the matrix is in echelon form, and use the term Gauss–Jordan elimination to refer to

7225-480: Was published by Jack Edmonds in 1967. Independently, and almost simultaneously, Erwin Bareiss discovered another algorithm, based on the following remark, which applies to a division-free variant of Gaussian elimination. In standard Gaussian elimination, one subtracts from each row R i {\displaystyle R_{i}} below the pivot row R k {\displaystyle R_{k}}

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