.. highlight:: c

Manipulations of determinants
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The purpose of this little class is to regroup standard block manipulations on determinant, used in several 
QMC.

Given a function :math:`F(x,y)`, and two sets of values :math:`x_i,y_i \ 0\leq i < N`,
we can define the square :math:`N\times N` matrix 

.. math:: 
   
   M_{i,j} = F(x_i,y_j)

When adding/removing a line and column (i.e. a value of x, y), 
:math:`M^{-1}` and :math:`det M` can be fast updated using standard block matrix computations.
This class implements these general operations. It contains : 

* Data : 

  * :math:`M^{-1}` and :math:`det M`
  * a vector containing  :math:`x_i,y_i \ 0\leq i \leq N`

* Methods to quickly update :math:`M^{-1}` and :math:`\det M` when one :  

  * adds/removes a line and a column (i.e. adding or removing one x and one y)
  * adds/removes two lines and two columns (i.e. adding or removing two x and two y)
  * changes a line/colum, etc... 



.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   det_manip
   cookbook