Re: [Help-gsl] Inverse of complex Hermitian matrices?

[Patrick Alken]

It seems that when gsl_linalg_cholesky_invert was added to gsl (v1.12), 
its complex counterpart wasn't. There doesn't seem to be a 
gsl_linalg_complex_cholesky_invert so this is a doc bug.

On 11/17/2011 05:44 PM, Rhys Ulerich wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Matthias Sitte
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > What's the easiest way
> > to calculate the inverse of a complex Hermitian matrix with GSL?
> If I'm not screwing up my basic linear algebra (which I often do), I
> think gsl_linalg_complex_cholesky_decomp (documented at
> http://www.gnu.org/s/gsl/manual/html_node/Cholesky-Decomposition.html)
> to factorize a positive definite Hermitian matrix.  If you just want
> to apply the inverse to a vector, then
> gsl_linalg_complex_cholesky_solve or gsl_linalg_complex_cholesky_svx
> will accomplish that.  If you want to form the actual inverse in
> memory, then gsl_linalg_complex_cholesky_invert is what you want.
>
> - Rhys
>
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