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Let $A$ be symmetric positive definite matrix, and LU decompose it. Then we get $A = LL^T$.
The growth factor of matrix A is as follows $$ \rho \equiv \frac{\max _{i, j}\left|u_{i j}\right|}{\max _{i, j}\left|a_{i j}\right|} $$ A textbook said that $\rho = 1$, but I don't know how to prove it.
Would anybody elaborate this?

alryosha
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