Author: Panagiotis
10
Okt
In
[1, p. 60 exercise 3.1] a

real random vector

is given , which is distributed according to a multivatiate Gaussian PDF with zero mean and covariance matrix:
We are asked to find

if

where

is given by the relation:
so that

and

are uncorrelated and hence independent. We are also asked to find the Cholesky decomposition of

which expresses

as

, where

is lower triangular with 1′s on the principal diagonal and

is a diagonal matrix with positive diagonal elements.
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Author: Panagiotis
22
Aug
In
[1, p. 35 exercise 2.18] we are asked to prove that the inverse of a complex matrix

may be found by first inverting
to yield
and then letting

.
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Author: Panagiotis
16
Aug
In
[1, p. 35 exercise 2.17] we are asked to verify the alternative expression
[1, p. 33 (2.77)] for a hermitian function.
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Author: Panagiotis
12
Aug
In
[1, p. 35 exercise 2.16] we are asked to verify the formulas given for the complex gradient of a hermitian and a linear form
[1, p. 31 (2.70)]. To do so, we are instructed to decompose the matrices and vectors into their real and imaginary parts as
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Author: Panagiotis
25
Jun
In
[1, p. 35 exercise 2.15] we are asked to verify the formulas given for the gradient of a quadratic and linear form
[1, p. 31 (2.61)].
The corresponding formulas are
and
where

is a symmetric

matrix with elements

and

is a real

vector with elements

and

denotes the gradient of a real function in respect to

.
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