f04bjc computes the solution to a real system of linear equations , where is an symmetric matrix, stored in packed format and and are matrices. An estimate of the condition number of and an error bound for the computed solution are also returned.
The function may be called by the names: f04bjc, nag_linsys_real_symm_packed_solve or nag_real_sym_packed_lin_solve.
3Description
The diagonal pivoting method is used to factor as , if , or , if , where (or ) is a product of permutation and unit upper (lower) triangular matrices, and is symmetric and block diagonal with and diagonal blocks. The factored form of is then used to solve the system of equations .
4References
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 https://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug
Higham N J (2002) Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms (2nd Edition) SIAM, Philadelphia
5Arguments
1: – Nag_OrderTypeInput
On entry: the order argument specifies the two-dimensional storage scheme being used, i.e., row-major ordering or column-major ordering. C language defined storage is specified by . See Section 3.1.3 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for a more detailed explanation of the use of this argument.
Constraint:
or .
2: – Nag_UploTypeInput
On entry: if , the upper triangle of the matrix is stored.
If , the lower triangle of the matrix is stored.
Constraint:
or .
3: – IntegerInput
On entry: the number of linear equations , i.e., the order of the matrix .
Constraint:
.
4: – IntegerInput
On entry: the number of right-hand sides , i.e., the number of columns of the matrix .
Constraint:
.
5: – doubleInput/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array ap
must be at least
.
On entry: the symmetric matrix , packed column-wise in a linear array. The th column of the matrix is stored in the array ap as follows:
The storage of elements depends on the order and uplo arguments as follows:
if and ,
is stored in , for ;
if and ,
is stored in , for ;
if and ,
is stored in , for ;
if and ,
is stored in , for .
On exit: if NE_NOERROR, the block diagonal matrix and the multipliers used to obtain the factor or from the factorization or as computed by f07pdc, stored as a packed triangular matrix in the same storage format as .
6: – IntegerOutput
On exit: if NE_NOERROR, details of the interchanges and the block structure of , as determined by f07pdc.
If , then rows and columns and were interchanged, and is a diagonal block;
if and , then rows and columns and were interchanged and is a diagonal block;
if and , then rows and columns and were interchanged and is a diagonal block.
7: – doubleInput/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array b
must be at least
when
;
when
.
The th element of the matrix is stored in
when ;
when .
On entry: the matrix of right-hand sides .
On exit: if NE_NOERROR or NE_RCOND, the solution matrix .
8: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array b.
Constraints:
if ,
;
if , .
9: – double *Output
On exit: if no constraints are violated, an estimate of the reciprocal of the condition number of the matrix , computed as .
10: – double *Output
On exit: if NE_NOERROR or NE_RCOND, 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, errbnd is returned as unity.
11: – NagError *Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).
6Error Indicators and Warnings
NE_ALLOC_FAIL
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
The Integer allocatable memory required is n, and the double allocatable memory required is . Allocation failed before the solution could be computed. See Section 3.1.2 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_BAD_PARAM
On entry, argument had an illegal value.
NE_INT
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, . Constraint: .
NE_INT_2
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
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.
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_RCOND
A solution has been computed, but rcond is less than machine precision so that the matrix is numerically singular.
NE_SINGULAR
Diagonal block of the block diagonal matrix is zero. The factorization has been completed, but the solution could not be computed.
7Accuracy
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. f04bjc uses the approximation to estimate errbnd. See Section 4.4 of Anderson et al. (1999) for further details.
8Parallelism and Performance
f04bjc 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.
9Further Comments
The packed storage scheme is illustrated by the following example when and . Two-dimensional storage of the symmetric matrix :
Packed storage of the upper triangle of :
The total number of floating-point operations required to solve the equations is proportional to . The condition number estimation typically requires between four and five solves and never more than eleven solves, following the factorization.
In practice the condition number estimator is very reliable, but it can underestimate the true condition number; see Section 15.3 of Higham (2002) for further details.
The complex analogues of f04bjc are f04cjc for complex Hermitian matrices, and f04djc for complex symmetric matrices.
10Example
This example solves the equations
where is the symmetric indefinite matrix
An estimate of the condition number of and an approximate error bound for the computed solutions are also printed.