An efficient method for computing the inverse of arrowhead matrices

In this paper we propose a simple and effective method to find the inverse of arrowhead matrices which often appear in wide areas of applied science and engineering such as wireless communications systems, molecular physics, oscillators vibrationally coupled with Fermi liquid, and eigenvalue problems. Amodified Sherman–Morrison inversematrix method is proposed for computing the inverse of an arrowhead matrix. The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated and numerical results are presented along with comparative results. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.