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Algorithm 646: PDFIND: a routine to find a positive definite linear combination of two real symmetric matrices
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Volume 12 ,  Issue 3  (September 1986) table of contents
Pages: 278 - 282  
Year of Publication: 1986
ISSN:0098-3500
Author
Charles R. Crawford  York University, 39 MacPherson A.ve., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 1W7
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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APPENDICES and SUPPLEMENTS
positive definite linear combination of two real symmetric matrices may be used to solve the generalized eigenproblem Ax = (lambda)Bx in case A and B are large and sparse, but neither is positive definite
Gams: D4b1,D4c1c


ABSTRACT

PDFIND is a FORTRAN-77 implementation of an algorithm that finds a positive definite linear combination of two symmetric matrices, or determines that such a combination does not exist. The algorithm is designed to be independent of the data structures used to store the matrices. The user must provide a subroutine, CHLSKY, which acts as an interface between PDFIND and the matrix data structures. CHLSKY also provides the user control over the number of iterations of the algorithm. Implementations of CHLSKY are included which call LINPAC routines for full matrices as well as symmetric banded matrices.


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CRAWFORD, C.R. Bounds for definite matrix pairs. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Numerical Mathematics, Congr. Numer. 145 (University of Manitoba, Sept. 27-29, 1984), 59-64.
 
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CRAWFORD, C. R., AND MOON, Y. S. Finding a positive definite linear combination of two Hermitian matrix. Linear Algebra Appl. 51 (19;33), 37-48.
 
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DONGARRA, J. J., MOLER, C. B., BUNCH, j. lq:., AND STEWART, G.W. LINPAC User's Guide. SIAM, Philadelphia, Pa., 1979.

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