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Computation to differentiate a determinant [closed]

Consider a positive Hermitian $N \times N$ matrix $A$ with complex valued coefficients. We list its eigenvalues in increasing order and with their multiplicities, $\mu_{1} \leq \mu_{2} \leq \cdots \...
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Derivative of log determinant and inverse

I have a matrix $\Sigma$ with element $(i,j)$ $$\Sigma_{i,j}= \exp(-h_{i,j}\rho).$$ The matrix is positive definite and symmetric (it is a covariance matrix). Now I need to evaluate $$\frac{\...