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The Iso-Inverse: A Contravariant Sparse Approximate Inverse Matrix
Peter M W Gill1, Martin Mrovec1
1School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia.
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Given a sparse matrix A, we define and discuss a matrix B that approximates A-1, has exactly the same sparsity structure as A, and varies contravariantly with A. Unlike many other sparse inverse approximations, the iso-inverse B is not constructed by minimizing the residual ∥AB - I∥ but, instead, by stipulating that AB = I for a well-defined subset of the elements of I. The iso-inverse is potentially useful in electronic structure calculations with nonorthogonal localized molecular orbitals.
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