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Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory Canonical forms and decompositions Theorem

QR decomposition

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Statement

Let AA be an n×nn \times n complex matrix. Then there are a unitary matrix QQ and an upper triangular matrix RR with A=QR.A = QR. If AA is real, then QQ and RR can be chosen real, with QQ orthogonal. If AA is invertible and the diagonal entries of RR are required to be positive, then QQ and RR are unique.

Remarks

For an invertible AA, the Gram–Schmidt process applied to the columns of AA gives the columns of QQ. A rectangular m×nm \times n matrix with m≥nm \ge n has a decomposition A=QRA = QR with QQ unitary m×mm \times m and RR upper triangular m×nm \times n. Householder reflections and Givens rotations compute it stably. It is used to solve least squares problems and in the QR algorithm for eigenvalues.

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