where (or ) is a product of permutation and unit upper (lower) triangular matrices, and is Hermitian 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
Golub G H and Van Loan C F (1996) Matrix Computations (3rd Edition) Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
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 is stored.
If , the lower triangle of 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: – ComplexInput/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array a
must be at least
.
On entry: the Hermitian matrix .
If , is stored in .
If , is stored in .
If , the upper triangular part of must be stored and the elements of the array below the diagonal are not referenced.
If , the lower triangular part of must be stored and the elements of the array above the diagonal are not referenced.
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 f07mrc.
6: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) of the matrix in the array
a.
Constraint:
.
7: – IntegerOutput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array ipiv
must be at least
.
On exit: details of the interchanges and the block structure of . More precisely,
if , is a pivot block and the th row and column of were interchanged with the th row and column;
if and , is a pivot block and the th row and column of were interchanged with the th row and column;
if and , is a pivot block and the th row and column of were interchanged with the th row and column.
8: – ComplexInput/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 right-hand side matrix .
On exit: if NE_NOERROR, the solution matrix .
9: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array b.
Constraints:
if ,
;
if , .
10: – 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.
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: .
On entry, . Constraint: .
NE_INT_2
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
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_SINGULAR
Element of the diagonal is exactly zero.
The factorization has been completed, but the block diagonal matrix
is exactly singular, so 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. See Section 4.4 of Anderson et al. (1999) for further details.
f07mpc is a comprehensive LAPACK driver that returns forward and backward error bounds and an estimate of the condition number. Alternatively, f04chc solves and returns a forward error bound and condition estimate. f04chc calls f07mnc to solve the equations.
8Parallelism and Performance
f07mnc 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 total number of floating-point operations is approximately , where is the number of right-hand sides.
The real analogue of this function is f07mac. The complex symmetric analogue of this function is f07nnc.