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If $A$ has full column rank, then $A^{+} = (A^{} A)^{- 1} A^{}$

Statement

Let $F \in {R, C}$ and let $A \in M_{m \times n} (F)$ have full column rank $n$ . Then $A^{*} A$ is invertible and

$A^{+} = (A^{*} A)^{- 1} A^{*} .$

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A matrix $A \in M_{m \times n} (F)$ of full column rank, where $F \in {R, C}$ .

[L1]

Full column rank means that all $n$ singular values of $A$ are nonzero (The rank of a linear map is the number of its nonzero singular values).

[L2]

Every finite real or complex matrix has a unique Moore--Penrose pseudoinverse (Every finite real or complex matrix has a unique Moore--Penrose pseudoinverse).

[L3]

An invertible matrix has a two-sided inverse (Invertible matrices and the general linear group ${GL}_{n} (F)$ ).

[L4]

Every finite real or complex matrix has a singular value decomposition (Every linear map between finite-dimensional real or complex inner product spaces admits a singular value decomposition).

Proof

technique · direct

1.1L1L4

By [L4], choose an SVD $A = U Σ V^{*}$ , and by [L1] the diagonal matrix $Σ$ has the form $diag (σ_{1}, \dots, σ_{n})$ with every $σ_{i} > 0$ .

2.1L3step 1.1algebra

Then $A^{*} A = V Σ^{*} Σ V^{*} = V diag (σ_{1}^{2}, \dots, σ_{n}^{2}) V^{*},$ so [L3] gives $(A^{*} A)^{- 1} = V diag (σ_{1}^{- 2}, \dots, σ_{n}^{- 2}) V^{*} .$

3.1L2step 2.1algebra

Multiplying by $A^{*} = V Σ^{*} U^{*}$ yields $B : = (A^{*} A)^{- 1} A^{*} = V diag (σ_{1}^{- 1}, \dots, σ_{n}^{- 1}) U^{*} .$ Direct diagonal multiplication shows that $B$ satisfies all four Penrose equations for $A$ , so uniqueness in [L2] gives $B = A^{+}$ .

4.1step 3.1∎

Therefore $A^{*} A$ is invertible and $A^{+} = (A^{*} A)^{- 1} A^{*}$ .

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Sources

Gene H. Golub, Least squares, singular values and matrix approximations (standard reference, not scraped)
Stanford CS205L, Unit 11: Zero Singular Values (standard reference, not scraped)

If AA has full column rank, then A+=(A∗A)−1A∗A+=(A∗A)−1A∗