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A basic minor of a matrix is the determinant of a square submatrix that is of maximal size with nonzero determinant. [3] For Hermitian matrices, the leading principal minors can be used to test for positive definiteness and the principal minors can be used to test for positive semidefiniteness. See Sylvester's criterion for more details.
Its leading principal minors are all positive The k th leading principal minor of a matrix is the determinant of its upper-left sub-matrix. It turns out that a matrix is positive definite if and only if all these determinants are positive.
In other words, all of the leading principal minors must be positive. By using appropriate permutations of rows and columns of M , it can also be shown that the positivity of any nested sequence of n principal minors of M is equivalent to M being positive-definite.
Specifically, sign conditions are imposed on the sequence of leading principal minors (determinants of upper-left-justified sub-matrices) of the bordered Hessian, for which the first leading principal minors are neglected, the smallest minor consisting of the truncated first + rows and columns, the next consisting of the truncated first + rows ...
If is a singular matrix of rank , then it admits an LU factorization if the first leading principal minors are nonzero, although the converse is not true. [9] If a square, invertible matrix has an LDU (factorization with all diagonal entries of L and U equal to 1), then the factorization is unique. [8]
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For the general case of an arbitrary number n of variables, there are n sign conditions on the n principal minors of the Hessian matrix that together are equivalent to positive or negative definiteness of the Hessian (Sylvester's criterion): for a local minimum, all the principal minors need to be positive, while for a local maximum, the minors ...