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Adjugate matrix

satisfies .

Definition 3.41 (Adjugate Matrix)

Reasoning as above, if then

Hence

Lecture 16 ยท 2025-11-13

The adjugate of a matrix is defined to be

where is the matrix with entries of cofactors .

Inverse from the adjugate

From the cofactor relations and , the adjugate satisfies

Hence, if , then

which computes the inverse of a matrix using only determinants of smaller matrices.

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