Operations on sparse matrices

Helmut Jarausch jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de
Wed Apr 21 04:14:44 EDT 2010


On 04/19/10 08:03, pp wrote:
> I am currently dealing with sparse matrices and have doubts on whether
> we can use
> 1.) dot (for matrix multiplication) and inv (inverse) operations of
> numpy on sparse matrices of CSR format.
> 

I don't know of any use of the inverse of a sparse matrix.
Note, in nearly all cases the inverse of a sparse matrix is a full matrix.
Instead of inverting a matrix solve a linear system with that matrix.
What do you need the inverse for?

Helmut.


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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany



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