NAG CL Interface
f01jbc (real_​gen_​matrix_​cond_​num)

1 Purpose

f01jbc computes an estimate of the absolute condition number of a matrix function f at a real n by n matrix A in the 1-norm. Numerical differentiation is used to evaluate the derivatives of f when they are required.

2 Specification

#include <nag.h>
void  f01jbc (Integer n, double a[], Integer pda,
void (*f)(Integer *iflag, Integer nz, const Complex z[], Complex fz[], Nag_Comm *comm),
Nag_Comm *comm, Integer *iflag, double *conda, double *norma, double *normfa, NagError *fail)
The function may be called by the names: f01jbc or nag_matop_real_gen_matrix_cond_num.

3 Description

The absolute condition number of f at A, condabsf,A is given by the norm of the Fréchet derivative of f, LA, which is defined by
LX := maxE0 LX,E E ,  
where LX,E is the Fréchet derivative in the direction E. LX,E is linear in E and can therefore be written as
vec LX,E = KX vecE ,  
where the vec operator stacks the columns of a matrix into one vector, so that KX is n2×n2. f01jbc computes an estimate γ such that γ KX 1 , where KX 1 n-1 LX 1 , n LX 1 . The relative condition number can then be computed via
cond rel f,A = cond abs f,A A1 fA 1 .  
The algorithm used to find γ is detailed in Section 3.4 of Higham (2008).
The function f is supplied via function f which evaluates fzi at a number of points zi.

4 References

Higham N J (2008) Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, USA

5 Arguments

1: n Integer Input
On entry: n, the order of the matrix A.
Constraint: n0.
2: a[dim] double Input/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array a must be at least pda×n.
The i,jth element of the matrix A is stored in a[j-1×pda+i-1].
On entry: the n by n matrix A.
On exit: the n by n matrix, fA.
3: pda Integer Input
On entry: the stride separating matrix row elements in the array a.
Constraint: pdan.
4: f function, supplied by the user External Function
The function f evaluates fzi at a number of points zi.
The specification of f is:
void  f (Integer *iflag, Integer nz, const Complex z[], Complex fz[], Nag_Comm *comm)
1: iflag Integer * Input/Output
On entry: iflag will be zero.
On exit: iflag should either be unchanged from its entry value of zero, or may be set nonzero to indicate that there is a problem in evaluating the function fz; for instance fz may not be defined. If iflag is returned as nonzero then f01jbc will terminate the computation, with fail.code= NE_USER_STOP.
2: nz Integer Input
On entry: nz, the number of function values required.
3: z[dim] const Complex Input
On entry: the nz points z1,z2,,znz at which the function f is to be evaluated.
4: fz[dim] Complex Output
On exit: the nz function values. fz[i-1] should return the value fzi, for i=1,2,,nz. If zi lies on the real line, then so must fzi.
5: comm Nag_Comm *
Pointer to structure of type Nag_Comm; the following members are relevant to f.
userdouble *
iuserInteger *
pPointer 
The type Pointer will be void *. Before calling f01jbc you may allocate memory and initialize these pointers with various quantities for use by f when called from f01jbc (see Section 3.1.1 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).
Note: f should not return floating-point NaN (Not a Number) or infinity values, since these are not handled by f01jbc. If your code inadvertently does return any NaNs or infinities, f01jbc is likely to produce unexpected results.
5: comm Nag_Comm *
The NAG communication argument (see Section 3.1.1 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).
6: iflag Integer * Output
On exit: iflag=0, unless iflag has been set nonzero inside f, in which case iflag will be the value set and fail will be set to fail.code= NE_USER_STOP.
7: conda double * Output
On exit: an estimate of the absolute condition number of f at A.
8: norma double * Output
On exit: the 1-norm of A.
9: normfa double * Output
On exit: the 1-norm of fA.
10: fail NagError * Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_ALLOC_FAIL
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.1.2 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_BAD_PARAM
On entry, argument value had an illegal value.
NE_INT
On entry, n=value.
Constraint: n0.
NE_INT_2
On entry, pda=value and n=value.
Constraint: pdan.
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR
An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
See Section 7.5 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
An internal error occurred when estimating the norm of the Fréchet derivative of f at A. Please contact NAG.
An internal error occurred when evaluating the matrix function fA. You can investigate further by calling f01elc with the matrix A and the function f.
NE_NO_LICENCE
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_USER_STOP
iflag has been set nonzero by the user-supplied function.

7 Accuracy

f01jbc uses the norm estimation function f04ydc to estimate a quantity γ, where γ KX 1 and KX 1 n-1 LX 1 , n LX 1 . For further details on the accuracy of norm estimation, see the documentation for f04ydc.

8 Parallelism and Performance

f01jbc is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library. In these implementations, this function may make calls to the user-supplied functions from within an OpenMP parallel region. Thus OpenMP pragmas within the user functions can only be used if you are compiling the user-supplied function and linking the executable in accordance with the instructions in the Users' Note for your implementation. You must also ensure that you use the NAG communication argument comm in a thread safe manner, which is best achieved by only using it to supply read-only data to the user functions.
f01jbc makes calls to BLAS and/or LAPACK routines, which may be threaded within the vendor library used by this implementation. Consult the documentation for the vendor library for further information.
Please consult the X06 Chapter Introduction for information on how to control and interrogate the OpenMP environment used within this function. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.

9 Further Comments

The matrix function is computed using the underlying matrix function routine f01elc. Approximately 6n2 of real allocatable memory is required by the routine, in addition to the memory used by the underlying matrix function routine.
If only fA is required, without an estimate of the condition number, then it is far more efficient to use the underlying matrix function routine.
The complex analogue of this function is f01kbc.

10 Example

This example estimates the absolute and relative condition numbers of the matrix function cos2A where
A= -1 -1 -2 1 0 1 -1 0 -1 -2 1 -1 0 -1 0 -1 .  

10.1 Program Text

Program Text (f01jbce.c)

10.2 Program Data

Program Data (f01jbce.d)

10.3 Program Results

Program Results (f01jbce.r)