The LU-decomposition of Lehmer's tridiagonal matrix

2018/08/23 by Helmut Prodinger, Prodinger, Helmut
Engineering · Mathematics · #05A30 #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #Mathematics and Applications #graph theory and CDMA systems

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1808.07800

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Abstract

The LU-decomposition of Lehmer's tridiagonal matrix is first guessed, then proved, which leads to an evaluation of the determinant.

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