The routine may be called by the names f01enf or nagf_matop_real_gen_matrix_sqrt.
3Description
A square root of a matrix is a solution to the equation . A nonsingular matrix has multiple square roots. For a matrix with no eigenvalues on the closed negative real line, the principal square root, denoted by , is the unique square root whose eigenvalues lie in the open right half-plane.
Björck Å and Hammarling S (1983) A Schur method for the square root of a matrix Linear Algebra Appl.52/53 127–140
Deadman E, Higham N J and Ralha R (2013) Blocked Schur Algorithms for Computing the Matrix Square Root Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing: 11th International Conference, (PARA 2012, Helsinki, Finland) P. Manninen and P. Öster, Eds Lecture Notes in Computer Science7782 171–181 Springer–Verlag
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Higham N J (2008) Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, USA
5Arguments
1: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the order of the matrix .
Constraint:
.
2: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayInput/Output
Note: the second dimension of the array a
must be at least
.
On entry: the matrix .
On exit: contains, if , the principal matrix square root, . Alternatively, if , contains an non-principal square root of .
3: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array a as declared in the (sub)program from which f01enf is called.
Constraint:
.
4: – IntegerInput/Output
On entry: ifail must be set to , or to set behaviour on detection of an error; these values have no effect when no error is detected.
A value of causes the printing of an error message and program execution will be halted; otherwise program execution continues. A value of means that an error message is printed while a value of means that it is not.
If halting is not appropriate, the value or is recommended. If message printing is undesirable, then the value is recommended. Otherwise, the value is recommended. When the value or is used it is essential to test the value of ifail on exit.
On exit: unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).
6Error Indicators and Warnings
If on entry or , explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by x04aaf).
Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
has a semisimple vanishing eigenvalue. A non-principal square root is returned.
has a defective vanishing eigenvalue. The square root cannot be found in this case.
has a negative real eigenvalue. The principal square root is not defined. f01fnf can be used to return a complex, non-principal square root.
An internal error occurred. It is likely that the routine was called incorrectly.
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please
contact NAG.
See Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 9 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
7Accuracy
The computed square root satisfies , where , where is machine precision.
For further discussion of the condition of the matrix square root see Section 6.1 of Higham (2008).
8Parallelism and Performance
Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
f01enf is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.
f01enf 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.
9Further Comments
The cost of the algorithm is floating-point operations; see Algorithm 6.7 of Higham (2008). of real allocatable memory is required by the routine.
If condition number and residual bound estimates are required, then f01jdf should be used.
10Example
This example finds the principal matrix square root of the matrix