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# scipy.linalg.cholesky

`scipy.linalg.``cholesky`(a, lower=False, overwrite_a=False, check_finite=True)

  Compute the Cholesky decomposition of a matrix.

  Returns the Cholesky decomposition, \(A = L L^*\) or \(A = U^* U\) of a Hermitian positive-definite matrix A.

  Parameters: | a : (M, M) array_like Matrix to be decomposed lower : bool, optional Whether to compute the upper or lower triangular Cholesky factorization. Default is upper-triangular. overwrite_a : bool, optional Whether to overwrite data in a (may improve performance). check_finite : bool, optional Whether to check that the input matrix contains only finite numbers. Disabling may give a performance gain, but may result in problems (crashes, non-termination) if the inputs do contain infinities or NaNs.
  Returns: | c : (M, M) ndarray Upper- or lower-triangular Cholesky factor of a.
  Raises: | LinAlgError : if decomposition fails.

  Examples

      >>> from scipy import array, linalg, dot
      >>> a = array([[1,-2j],[2j,5]])
      >>> L = linalg.cholesky(a, lower=True)
      >>> L
      array([[ 1.+0.j,  0.+0.j],
             [ 0.+2.j,  1.+0.j]])
      >>> dot(L, L.T.conj())
      array([[ 1.+0.j,  0.-2.j],
             [ 0.+2.j,  5.+0.j]])