Matrix decomposition



maxima-admin@math.utexas.edu wrote on 03/31/2005 08:06:36 AM:

> Does anyone know a decomposition which will decompose a
> positive definite matrix Q into factors transpose(H)*H?
> Thanks,
> Dan Stanger

This is the Cholesky decomposition.  The matrix H is triangular. 
Maxima doesn't have function that finds the Cholesky decomposition.

Barton