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S. Carnahan
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efficient way to compute the inversion of the following matrix

Hi, there

I have looked it up in the current textbook. The conventional numerical method to compute the inversion of an $n \times n$ matrix requires $O(n^3)$. However, for the following special matrix ${(E-a \cdot X)}^{-1}$, where $E$ is an $n \times n$ identity matrix, $0 < a < 1$ is a scalar, and $X$ is a stochastic matrix (the sum of each row is 1, and all its entries are between 0 and 1). Then do you have some ideas to compute ${(E-a \cdot X)}^{-1}$ as fast as you can? Thanks in advance!

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