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NCInverse[aSquareMatrix]

Aliases: None.
Description: NCInverse[$ m$] gives a symbolic inverse of a matrix with noncommutative entries.
Arguments: $ m$ is an $ n \times n$ matrix with noncommutative entries.
Comments / Limitations: This command is primarily used symbolically and is not guarenteed to work for any specific examples. Usually the elements of the inverse matrix ($ m^{-1}$) are huge expressions. We recommend using NCSimplifyRational[NCInverse[$ m$]] to improve the formula you get. In some cases, NCSimplifyRational[$ m^{-1} m$] does not provide the identity matrix, even though it does equal the identity matrix. The formula we use for NCInverse[] comes from the LDU decomposition. Thus in principle it depends on the order chosen for pivoting even if the inverse of a matrix is unique.



NCAlgebra Project 2002-09-09