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### Inverse or approximation to the inverse of a sum of block diagonal and diagonal matrix

I need to calculate $(A+B)^{-1}$, where $A$ and $B$ are two square, very sparse and very large. $A$ is block diagonal, real symmetric and positive definite, and I have access to $A^{-1}$ (which in ...
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### Show that $A^T=A^{-1}$

Say I have a matrix $B$ that is skew symmetric ($B^T=-B$). I want to show that for $A=(I+B)(I-B)^{-1}$ that $A^T=A^{-1}$ is true. All we know is that $B$ is square and that $(I-B)$ is non singular. ...
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### Concavity of trace of positive definite matrix

I have to show that $Tr((A^{-1} + B^{-1})^{-1})$ is a concave function, being A and B positive definite matrices. I cannot imagine how is this possible since we are computing the trace of a positive ...
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### harmonic mean of covariance matrices.

After writing up some math, I ended up with a term like so: $\left(A^{-1} + B^{-1}\right)^{-1}$ where $A$ and $B$ are 2 covariance matrices. 1) Can I be sure that this expression is meaningful? (i....
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### Pseudoinverse of the sum of matrices

Similarly to the question posted here Inverse of the sum of matrices but in case of non-square matrices. If I want to compute the pseudoinverse of (A+B) and matrices A,B pinv(A) is known is there a ...
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### Is there a way to update the inverse of a sum of two matrices following a rescaling of one of them?

Suppose I have two matrices $A$ and $B$ (let's assume that both $A$ and $B$ are invertible, as is their sum), and a scalar $g$. I am interested in the matrix $$M^{-1} = (A + gB)^{-1}$$ I am aware ...
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### Any lemma for $(A+A^{-1})^{-1}$?

I'm actually a little surprised since I wasn't able to find any nice property to compute $(A+A^{-1})^{-1}$ ... Anyone knows about a theoretical way to achieve this ? Like an specific inversion lemma?...
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### Real parts of diagonal elements of $(I-U)^{-1}(I+U)$ are zero?
I noticed numerically that real parts of diagonal elements of $(I-U)^{-1}(I+U)$ are zero (assuming $I-U$ is invertible), where $I$ is identity matrix and $U$ is a unitary matrix ($U^\dagger U=I$). A ...