Frequently Asked Questions
What is a cofactor?
The signed determinant of the submatrix you get after deleting one row and one column. It carries a sign from the (-1) to the power i plus j pattern.
Cofactor versus minor?
The minor is the unsigned determinant; the cofactor multiplies the minor by (-1) to the power i plus j to add the sign.
How are cofactors used?
Laplace expansion of the determinant sums entries times their cofactors along a row or column. The adjugate (transpose of the cofactor matrix) appears in the closed-form inverse.
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