+ def inverse(self):
+ """
+ Return the inverse of this operator, if it exists.
+
+ The reason this method is not simply an alias for the built-in
+ :meth:`__invert__` is that the built-in inversion is a bit magic
+ since it's intended to be a unary operator. If we alias ``inverse``
+ to ``__invert__``, then we wind up having to call e.g. ``A.inverse``
+ without parentheses.
+
+ SETUP::
+
+ sage: from mjo.eja.eja_algebra import RealSymmetricEJA, random_eja
+
+ EXAMPLES::
+
+ sage: J = RealSymmetricEJA(2)
+ sage: x = sum(J.gens())
+ sage: x.operator().inverse().matrix()
+ [3/2 -1 1/2]
+ [ -1 2 -1]
+ [1/2 -1 3/2]
+ sage: x.operator().matrix().inverse()
+ [3/2 -1 1/2]
+ [ -1 2 -1]
+ [1/2 -1 3/2]
+
+ TESTS:
+
+ The identity operator is its own inverse::
+
+ sage: set_random_seed()
+ sage: J = random_eja()
+ sage: idJ = J.one().operator()
+ sage: idJ.inverse() == idJ
+ True
+
+ The inverse of the inverse is the operator we started with::
+
+ sage: set_random_seed()
+ sage: x = random_eja().random_element()
+ sage: L = x.operator()
+ sage: not L.is_invertible() or (L.inverse().inverse() == L)
+ True
+
+ """
+ return ~self
+
+