grandes-ecoles 2017 QII.A.5

grandes-ecoles · France · centrale-maths1__official Matrices Determinant and Rank Computation
We assume $n \geq 2$. Let $F = H$ be a hyperplane of $E_{n}$ and let $N \in E_{n}$ be a unit vector normal to $H$. $A$ is an invertible matrix in $\mathcal{M}_{n}(\mathbb{R})$. Deduce that $\operatorname{det}\left(A_{N}\right) = -N^{\top} A^{-1} N \operatorname{det}(A)$.
We assume $n \geq 2$. Let $F = H$ be a hyperplane of $E_{n}$ and let $N \in E_{n}$ be a unit vector normal to $H$. $A$ is an invertible matrix in $\mathcal{M}_{n}(\mathbb{R})$. Deduce that $\operatorname{det}\left(A_{N}\right) = -N^{\top} A^{-1} N \operatorname{det}(A)$.