NAG Library Routine Document
F04BGF
1 Purpose
F04BGF computes the solution to a real system of linear equations , where is an by symmetric positive definite tridiagonal matrix and and are by matrices. An estimate of the condition number of and an error bound for the computed solution are also returned.
2 Specification
INTEGER |
N, NRHS, LDB, IFAIL |
REAL (KIND=nag_wp) |
D(*), E(*), B(LDB,*), RCOND, ERRBND |
|
3 Description
is factorized as , where is a unit lower bidiagonal matrix and is diagonal, and the factored form of is then used to solve the system of equations.
4 References
Anderson E, Bai Z, Bischof C, Blackford S, Demmel J, Dongarra J J, Du Croz J J, Greenbaum A, Hammarling S, McKenney A and Sorensen D (1999)
LAPACK Users' Guide (3rd Edition) SIAM, Philadelphia
http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug
Higham N J (2002) Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms (2nd Edition) SIAM, Philadelphia
5 Parameters
- 1: N – INTEGERInput
On entry: the number of linear equations , i.e., the order of the matrix .
Constraint:
.
- 2: NRHS – INTEGERInput
On entry: the number of right-hand sides , i.e., the number of columns of the matrix .
Constraint:
.
- 3: D() – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
-
Note: the dimension of the array
D
must be at least
.
On entry: must contain the diagonal elements of the tridiagonal matrix .
On exit: if
or
,
D is overwritten by the
diagonal elements of the diagonal matrix
from the
factorization of
.
- 4: E() – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
-
Note: the dimension of the array
E
must be at least
.
On entry: must contain the subdiagonal elements of the tridiagonal matrix .
On exit: if
or
,
E is overwritten by the
subdiagonal elements of the unit lower bidiagonal matrix
from the
factorization of
. (
E can also be regarded as the superdiagonal of the unit upper bidiagonal factor
from the
factorization of
.)
- 5: B(LDB,) – REAL (KIND=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
-
Note: the second dimension of the array
B
must be at least
.
On entry: the by matrix of right-hand sides .
On exit: if or , the by solution matrix .
- 6: LDB – INTEGERInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array
B as declared in the (sub)program from which F04BGF is called.
Constraint:
.
- 7: RCOND – REAL (KIND=nag_wp)Output
On exit: if or , an estimate of the reciprocal of the condition number of the matrix , computed as .
- 8: ERRBND – REAL (KIND=nag_wp)Output
On exit: if
or
, an estimate of the forward error bound for a computed solution
, such that
, where
is a column of the computed solution returned in the array
B and
is the corresponding column of the exact solution
. If
RCOND is less than
machine precision, then
ERRBND is returned as unity.
- 9: IFAIL – INTEGERInput/Output
-
On entry:
IFAIL must be set to
,
. If you are unfamiliar with this parameter you should refer to
Section 3.3 in the Essential Introduction for details.
For environments where it might be inappropriate to halt program execution when an error is detected, the value
is recommended. If the output of error messages is undesirable, then the value
is recommended. Otherwise, if you are not familiar with this parameter, the recommended value is
.
When the value is used it is essential to test the value of IFAIL on exit.
On exit:
unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see
Section 6).
6 Error Indicators and Warnings
If on entry
or
, explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by
X04AAF).
Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
If , the th argument had an illegal value.
Allocation of memory failed. The real allocatable memory required is
N. In this case the factorization and the solution
have been computed, but
RCOND and
ERRBND have not been computed.
If , the leading minor of order of is not positive definite. The factorization could not be completed, and the solution has not been computed.
RCOND is less than
machine precision, so that the matrix
is numerically singular. A solution to the equations
has nevertheless been computed.
7 Accuracy
The computed solution for a single right-hand side,
, satisfies an equation of the form
where
and
is the
machine precision. An approximate error bound for the computed solution is given by
where
, the condition number of
with respect to the solution of the linear equations. F04BGF uses the approximation
to estimate
ERRBND. See Section 4.4 of
Anderson et al. (1999)
for further details.
The total number of floating point operations required to solve the equations is proportional to . The condition number estimation requires floating point operations.
See Section 15.3 of
Higham (2002) for further details on computing the condition number of tridiagonal matrices.
The complex analogue of F04BGF is
F04CGF.
9 Example
This example solves the equations
where
is the symmetric positive definite tridiagonal matrix
An estimate of the condition number of and an approximate error bound for the computed solutions are also printed.
9.1 Program Text
Program Text (f04bgfe.f90)
9.2 Program Data
Program Data (f04bgfe.d)
9.3 Program Results
Program Results (f04bgfe.r)