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A variant of Cholesky decomposition involving binary matrices

Studying a problem that is not directly related to linear algebra I came across the following problem. Let $B$ be $n \times n$ symmetric matrix whose entries are non-negative integers. I would like ...
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Closed form solution for $XAX^{T}=B$

Let $d \times d$ matrices $A, B$ be positive definite. Is there a closed form solution for the following quadratic equation in $X$? $$X A X^{T} = B$$ Thank you.
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