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Cholesky decomposition

Cholesky decomposition is a special case of LU decomposition which can only be done if A is a symmetric positive definite matrix with real entries.

You can decompose A into:

A = L L^T

where L is a lower triangular matrix with positive diagonal entries, and L^T denotes the transpose of L.

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