triangular matrix

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triangular matrix

[trī′aŋ·gyə·lər ′mā·triks]
(mathematics)
A matrix where either all entries above or all entries below the principal diagonal are zero.
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The difference to the previous sampling scheme for ST is that we now condition on [[SIGMA].sup.T] and are interested in sampling the free elements of the lower-triangular matrix [[LAMBDA].sub.t].
(Continued) After applying Tarjan's algorithm to obtain a block lower-triangular matrix for our example, we have the permutation vector [[1 3 2 4 5 6].sup.T].
Here we choose to solve the algebraic problem in equation (5.1) with an iterative solution method preconditioned by a block lower-triangular matrix