F07PGF (DSPCON) estimates the condition number of a real symmetric indefinite matrix
, where
has been factorized by
F07PDF (DSPTRF), using packed storage.
F07PGF (DSPCON) estimates the condition number (in the
-norm) of a real symmetric indefinite matrix
:
Since
is symmetric,
.
The routine should be preceded by a call to
F06RDF to compute
and a call to
F07PDF (DSPTRF) to compute the Bunch–Kaufman factorization of
. The routine then uses Higham's implementation of Hager's method (see
Higham (1988)) to estimate
.
Higham N J (1988) FORTRAN codes for estimating the one-norm of a real or complex matrix, with applications to condition estimation ACM Trans. Math. Software 14 381–396
The computed estimate
RCOND is never less than the true value
, and in practice is nearly always less than
, although examples can be constructed where
RCOND is much larger.
A call to F07PGF (DSPCON) involves solving a number of systems of linear equations of the form
; the number is usually
or
and never more than
. Each solution involves approximately
floating point operations but takes considerably longer than a call to
F07PEF (DSPTRS) with one right-hand side, because extra care is taken to avoid overflow when
is approximately singular.
The complex analogues of this routine are
F07PUF (ZHPCON) for Hermitian matrices and
F07QUF (ZSPCON) for symmetric matrices.
This example estimates the condition number in the
-norm (or
-norm) of the matrix
, where
Here
is symmetric indefinite, stored in packed form, and must first be factorized by
F07PDF (DSPTRF). The true condition number in the
-norm is
.