Integer, Intent (In)	::	n, nrhs, lda, ldb, lwork
Integer, Intent (Inout)	::	ipiv(*)
Integer, Intent (Out)	::	info
Real (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (Inout)	::	a(lda,), b(ldb,)
Real (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (Out)	::	work(max(1,lwork))
Character (1), Intent (In)	::	uplo

C Header Interface

#include <nag.h>

void	f07maf_ (const char uplo, const Integer n, const Integer nrhs, double a[], const Integer lda, Integer ipiv[], double b[], const Integer ldb, double work[], const Integer lwork, Integer *info, const Charlen length_uplo)

The routine may be called by the names f07maf, nagf_lapacklin_dsysv or its LAPACK name dsysv.

3 Description

f07maf uses the diagonal pivoting method to factor

A

A = U D U^{T}

uplo ='U'

A = L D L^{T}

uplo ='L'

, where

U

(or

L

) is a product of permutation and unit upper (lower) triangular matrices, and

D

is symmetric and block diagonal with

1 \times 1

and

2 \times 2

diagonal blocks. The factored form of

A

is then used to solve the system of equations

A X = B

Note that, in general, different permutations (pivot sequences) and diagonal block structures are obtained for

uplo ='U'

'L'

4 References

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

5 Arguments

1: $uplo$ – Character(1) Input

On entry: if

uplo ='U'

, the upper triangle of

A

is stored.

uplo ='L'

, the lower triangle of

A

is stored.

Constraint:

uplo ='U'

'L'

2: $n$ – Integer Input

On entry:

n

, the number of linear equations, i.e., the order of the matrix

A

Constraint:

n \geq 0

3: $nrhs$ – Integer Input

On entry:

r

, the number of right-hand sides, i.e., the number of columns of the matrix

B

Constraint:

nrhs \geq 0

4: $a (lda, *)$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) array Input/Output

Note: the second dimension of the array a must be at least

\max (1, n)

On entry: the

n \times n

symmetric matrix

A

If $uplo ='U'$ , the upper triangular part of $A$ must be stored and the elements of the array below the diagonal are not referenced.
If $uplo ='L'$ , the lower triangular part of $A$ must be stored and the elements of the array above the diagonal are not referenced.

On exit: if

info = 0

, the block diagonal matrix

D

and the multipliers used to obtain the factor

U

L

from the factorization

A = U D U^{T}

A = L D L^{T}

as computed by f07mdf.

5: $lda$ – Integer Input

On entry: the first dimension of the array a as declared in the (sub)program from which f07maf is called.

Constraint:

lda \geq \max (1, n)

6: $ipiv (*)$ – Integer array Output

Note: the dimension of the array ipiv must be at least

\max (1, n)

On exit: details of the interchanges and the block structure of

D

. More precisely,

if $ipiv (i) = k > 0$ , $d_{i i}$ is a $1 \times 1$ pivot block and the $i$ th row and column of $A$ were interchanged with the $k$ th row and column;
if $uplo ='U'$ and $ipiv (i - 1) = ipiv (i) = - l < 0$ , $(\begin{matrix} d_{i - 1, i - 1} & {\bar{d}}_{i, i - 1} \\ {\bar{d}}_{i, i - 1} & d_{i i} \end{matrix})$ is a $2 \times 2$ pivot block and the $(i - 1)$ th row and column of $A$ were interchanged with the $l$ th row and column;
if $uplo ='L'$ and $ipiv (i) = ipiv (i + 1) = - m < 0$ , $(\begin{matrix} d_{i i} & d_{i + 1, i} \\ d_{i + 1, i} & d_{i + 1, i + 1} \end{matrix})$ is a $2 \times 2$ pivot block and the $(i + 1)$ th row and column of $A$ were interchanged with the $m$ th row and column.

7: $b (ldb, *)$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) array Input/Output

Note: the second dimension of the array b must be at least

\max (1, nrhs)

On entry: the

n \times r

right-hand side matrix

B

On exit: if

info = 0

, the

n \times r

solution matrix

X

8: $ldb$ – Integer Input

On entry: the first dimension of the array b as declared in the (sub)program from which f07maf is called.

Constraint:

ldb \geq \max (1, n)

9: $work (\max (1, lwork))$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) array Workspace

On exit: if

info = 0

work (1)

returns the optimal lwork.

10: $lwork$ – Integer Input

On entry: the dimension of the array work as declared in the (sub)program from which f07maf is called.

lwork \geq 1

, and for best performance

lwork \geq \max (1, n \times nb)

, where

nb

is the optimal block size for f07mdf.

lwork = −1

, a workspace query is assumed; the routine only calculates the optimal size of the work array, returns this value as the first entry of the work array, and no error message related to lwork is issued.

11: $info$ – Integer Output

On exit:

info = 0

unless the routine detects an error (see Section 6).

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

$info < 0$: If $info = - i$ , argument $i$ had an illegal value. An explanatory message is output, and execution of the program is terminated.

$info > 0$: Element $⟨ value ⟩$ of the diagonal is exactly zero. The factorization has been completed, but the block diagonal matrix $D$ is exactly singular, so the solution could not be computed.

7 Accuracy

The computed solution for a single right-hand side,

\hat{x}

, satisfies an equation of the form

(A + E) \hat{x} = b,

where

{‖ E ‖}_{1} = O (ε) {‖ A ‖}_{1}

and

ε

is the machine precision. An approximate error bound for the computed solution is given by

\frac{{‖ \hat{x} - x ‖}_{1}}{{‖ x ‖}_{1}} \leq κ (A) \frac{{‖ E ‖}_{1}}{{‖ A ‖}_{1}},

where

κ (A) = {‖ A^{- 1} ‖}_{1} {‖ A ‖}_{1}

, the condition number of

A

with respect to the solution of the linear equations. See Section 4.4 of Anderson et al. (1999) for further details.

f07mbf is a comprehensive LAPACK driver that returns forward and backward error bounds and an estimate of the condition number. Alternatively, f04bhf solves

A x = b

and returns a forward error bound and condition estimate. f04bhf calls f07maf to solve the equations.

8 Parallelism and Performance

Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.

f07maf 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 routine. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.

9 Further Comments

The total number of floating-point operations is approximately

\frac{1}{3} n^{3} + 2 n^{2} r

, where

r

is the number of right-hand sides.

The complex analogues of f07maf are f07mnf for Hermitian matrices, and f07nnf for symmetric matrices.

10 Example

This example solves the equations

A x = b,

where

A

is the symmetric matrix

A = (\begin{matrix} - 1.81 & 2.06 & 0.63 & - 1.15 \\ 2.06 & 1.15 & 1.87 & 4.20 \\ 0.63 & 1.87 & - 0.21 & 3.87 \\ - 1.15 & 4.20 & 3.87 & 2.07 \end{matrix}) and b = (\begin{matrix} 0.96 \\ 6.07 \\ 8.38 \\ 9.50 \end{matrix}) .

Details of the factorization of

A

are also output.

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▸▿ Contents

1 Purpose

2 Specification

3 Description

4 References

5 Arguments

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

7 Accuracy

8 Parallelism and Performance

9 Further Comments

10 Example

10.1 Program Text

10.2 Program Data

10.3 Program Results

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