Integer, Intent (In)	::	m, n, lda
Integer, Intent (Inout)	::	jpvt(*)
Integer, Intent (Out)	::	info
Real (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (Inout)	::	a(lda,*)
Real (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (Out)	::	tau(min(m,n)), work(3*n)

C Header Interface

#include <nag.h>

void	f08bef_ (const Integer m, const Integer n, double a[], const Integer lda, Integer jpvt[], double tau[], double work[], Integer info)

The routine may be called by the names f08bef, nagf_lapackeig_dgeqpf or its LAPACK name dgeqpf.

3 Description

f08bef forms the

Q R

factorization, with column pivoting, of an arbitrary rectangular real

m \times n

matrix.

m \geq n

, the factorization is given by:

A P = Q (\begin{array}{r} R \\ 0 \end{array}),

where

R

is an

n \times n

upper triangular matrix,

Q

is an

m \times m

orthogonal matrix and

P

is an

n \times n

permutation matrix. It is sometimes more convenient to write the factorization as

A P = (\begin{array}{r} Q_{1} & Q_{2} \end{array}) (\begin{array}{r} R \\ 0 \end{array}),

which reduces to

A P = Q_{1} R,

where

Q_{1}

consists of the first

n

columns of

Q

, and

Q_{2}

the remaining

m - n

columns.

m < n

R

is trapezoidal, and the factorization can be written

A P = Q (\begin{array}{r} R_{1} & R_{2} \end{array}),

where

R_{1}

is upper triangular and

R_{2}

is rectangular.

The matrix

Q

is not formed explicitly but is represented as a product of

\min (m, n)

elementary reflectors (see the F08 Chapter Introduction for details). Routines are provided to work with

Q

in this representation (see Section 9).

Note also that for any

k < n

, the information returned in the first

k

columns of the array a represents a

Q R

factorization of the first

k

columns of the permuted matrix

A P

The routine allows specified columns of

A

to be moved to the leading columns of

A P

at the start of the factorization and fixed there. The remaining columns are free to be interchanged so that at the

i

th stage the pivot column is chosen to be the column which maximizes the

2

-norm of elements

i

m

over columns

i

n

4 References

Golub G H and Van Loan C F (1996) Matrix Computations (3rd Edition) Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

5 Arguments

1: $m$ – Integer Input: On entry: $m$ , the number of rows of the matrix $A$ .

Constraint: $m \geq 0$ .
2: $n$ – Integer Input: On entry: $n$ , the number of columns of the matrix $A$ .

Constraint: $n \geq 0$ .
3: $a (lda, *)$ – 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 $m \times n$ matrix $A$ .

On exit: if $m \geq n$ , the elements below the diagonal are overwritten by details of the orthogonal matrix $Q$ and the upper triangle is overwritten by the corresponding elements of the $n \times n$ upper triangular matrix $R$ .
If $m < n$ , the strictly lower triangular part is overwritten by details of the orthogonal matrix $Q$ and the remaining elements are overwritten by the corresponding elements of the $m \times n$ upper trapezoidal matrix $R$ .
4: $lda$ – Integer Input: On entry: the first dimension of the array a as declared in the (sub)program from which f08bef is called.

Constraint: $lda \geq \max (1, m)$ .
5: $jpvt (*)$ – Integer array Input/Output: Note: the dimension of the array jpvt must be at least $\max (1, n)$ .

On entry: if $jpvt (i) \neq 0$ , the $i$ th column of $A$ is moved to the beginning of $A P$ before the decomposition is computed and is fixed in place during the computation. Otherwise, the $i$ th column of $A$ is a free column (i.e., one which may be interchanged during the computation with any other free column).

On exit: details of the permutation matrix $P$ . More precisely, if $jpvt (i) = k$ , the $k$ th column of $A$ is moved to become the $i$ th column of $A P$ ; in other words, the columns of $A P$ are the columns of $A$ in the order $jpvt (1), jpvt (2), \dots, jpvt (n)$ .
6: $tau (\min (m, n))$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) array Output: On exit: further details of the orthogonal matrix $Q$ .
7: $work (3 \times n)$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) array Workspace
8: $info$ – 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.

7 Accuracy

The computed factorization is the exact factorization of a nearby matrix

(A + E)

, where

{‖ E ‖}_{2} = O (ε) {‖ A ‖}_{2},

and

ε

is the machine precision.

8 Parallelism and Performance

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

f08bef 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{2}{3} n^{2} (3 m - n)

m \geq n

\frac{2}{3} m^{2} (3 n - m)

m < n

To form the orthogonal matrix

Q

f08bef may be followed by a call to f08aff :

Call dorgqr(m,m,min(m,n),a,lda,tau,work,lwork,info)

but note that the second dimension of the array a must be at least m, which may be larger than was required by f08bef.

When

m \geq n

, it is often only the first

n

columns of

Q

that are required, and they may be formed by the call:

Call dorgqr(m,n,n,a,lda,tau,work,lwork,info)

To apply

Q

to an arbitrary

m \times p

real rectangular matrix

C

, f08bef may be followed by a call to f08agf . For example,

Call dormqr('Left','Transpose',m,p,min(m,n),a,lda,tau,c,ldc,work, &
              lwork,info)

forms the matrix product

C = Q^{T} C

To compute a

Q R

factorization without column pivoting, use f08aef.

The complex analogue of this routine is f08bsf.

10 Example

This example finds the basic solutions for the linear least squares problems

minimize {‖ A x_{i} - b_{i} ‖}_{2}, i = 1, 2

where

b_{1}

and

b_{2}

are the columns of the matrix

B

A = (\begin{array}{r} - 0.09 & 0.14 & - 0.46 & 0.68 & 1.29 \\ - 1.56 & 0.20 & 0.29 & 1.09 & 0.51 \\ - 1.48 & - 0.43 & 0.89 & - 0.71 & - 0.96 \\ - 1.09 & 0.84 & 0.77 & 2.11 & - 1.27 \\ 0.08 & 0.55 & - 1.13 & 0.14 & 1.74 \\ - 1.59 & - 0.72 & 1.06 & 1.24 & 0.34 \end{array}) and B = (\begin{array}{r} - 0.01 & - 0.04 \\ 0.04 & - 0.03 \\ 0.05 & 0.01 \\ - 0.03 & - 0.02 \\ 0.02 & 0.05 \\ - 0.06 & 0.07 \end{array}) .

Here

A

is approximately rank-deficient, and hence it is preferable to use f08bef rather than f08aef.

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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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