The function may be called by the names: f08qvc, nag_lapackeig_ztrsyl or nag_ztrsyl.
3Description
f08qvc solves the complex Sylvester matrix equation
where or , and the matrices and are upper triangular; is a scale factor () determined by the function to avoid overflow in ; is and is while the right-hand side matrix and the solution matrix are both . The matrix is obtained by a straightforward process of back-substitution (see Golub and Van Loan (1996)).
Note that the equation has a unique solution if and only if , where and are the eigenvalues of and respectively and the sign ( or ) is the same as that used in the equation to be solved.
4References
Golub G H and Van Loan C F (1996) Matrix Computations (3rd Edition) Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Higham N J (1992) Perturbation theory and backward error for Numerical Analysis Report University of Manchester
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_TransTypeInput
On entry: specifies the option .
.
.
Constraint:
or .
3: – Nag_TransTypeInput
On entry: specifies the option .
.
.
Constraint:
or .
4: – Nag_SignTypeInput
On entry: indicates the form of the Sylvester equation.
The equation is of the form .
The equation is of the form .
Constraint:
or .
5: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the order of the matrix , and the number of rows in the matrices and .
Constraint:
.
6: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the order of the matrix , and the number of columns in the matrices and .
Constraint:
.
7: – const ComplexInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array a
must be at least
.
The th element of the matrix is stored in
when ;
when .
On entry: the upper triangular matrix .
8: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array a.
Constraint:
.
9: – const ComplexInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array b
must be at least
.
The th element of the matrix is stored in
when ;
when .
On entry: the upper triangular matrix .
10: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array b.
Constraint:
.
11: – ComplexInput/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array c
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: c is overwritten by the solution matrix .
12: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array c.
Constraints:
if ,
;
if , .
13: – double *Output
On exit: the value of the scale factor .
14: – 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: .
On entry, . Constraint: .
NE_INT_2
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
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_PERTURBED
and have common or close eigenvalues, perturbed values of which were used to solve the equation.
7Accuracy
Consider the equation . (To apply the remarks to the equation , simply replace by .)
Let be the computed solution and the residual matrix:
Then the residual is always small:
However, is not necessarily the exact solution of a slightly perturbed equation; in other words, the solution is not backwards stable.
These remarks also apply to the solution of a general Sylvester equation, as described in Section 9.
8Parallelism and Performance
Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
f08qvc 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 real floating-point operations is approximately .
To solve the general complex Sylvester equation
where and are general matrices, and must first be reduced to Schur form
:
where and are upper triangular and and are unitary. The original equation may then be transformed to:
where and . may be computed by matrix multiplication; f08qvc may be used to solve the transformed equation; and the solution to the original equation can be obtained as .