: the number of Lanczos basis vectors to use during the computation.
At present there is no
a priori analysis to guide the selection of
ncv relative to
nev. However, it is recommended that
. If many problems of the same type are to be solved, you should experiment with increasing
ncv while keeping
nev fixed for a given test problem. This will usually decrease the required number of matrix-vector operations but it also increases the work and storage required to maintain the orthogonal basis vectors. The optimal ‘cross-over’ with respect to CPU time is problem dependent and must be determined empirically.