Higham N J (1988) FORTRAN codes for estimating the one-norm of a real or complex matrix, with applications to condition estimation ACM Trans. Math. Software 14 381–396

5

Arguments

1: $order$ – 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

order = Nag_RowMajor

. See Section 3.3.1.3 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for a more detailed explanation of the use of this argument.

Constraint:

order = Nag_RowMajor

Nag_ColMajor

2: $norm$ – Nag_NormTypeInput

On entry: indicates whether

κ_{1} (A)

κ_{\infty} (A)

is estimated.

$norm = Nag_OneNorm$: $κ_{1} (A)$ is estimated.
$norm = Nag_InfNorm$: $κ_{\infty} (A)$ is estimated.

Constraint:

norm = Nag_OneNorm

Nag_InfNorm

3: $n$ – IntegerInput

On entry:

n

, the order of the matrix

A

Constraint:

n \geq 0

4: $a [\dim]$ – const doubleInput

Note: the dimension, dim, of the array a must be at least

\max (1, pda \times n)

The

(i, j)

th element of the matrix

A

is stored in

$a [(j - 1) \times pda + i - 1]$ when $order = Nag_ColMajor$ ;
$a [(i - 1) \times pda + j - 1]$ when $order = Nag_RowMajor$ .

On entry: the

L U

factorization of

A

, as returned by nag_dgetrf (f07adc).

5: $pda$ – IntegerInput

On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array a.

Constraint:

pda \geq \max (1, n)

6: $anorm$ – doubleInput

On entry: if

norm = Nag_OneNorm

, the

1

-norm of the original matrix

A

norm = Nag_InfNorm

, the

\infty

-norm of the original matrix

A

anorm may be computed by calling nag_dge_norm (f16rac) with the same value for the argument norm.

anorm must be computed either before calling nag_dgetrf (f07adc) or else from a copy of the original matrix

A

(see Section 10).

Constraint:

anorm \geq 0.0

7: $rcond$ – double *Output

On exit: an estimate of the reciprocal of the condition number of

A

. rcond is set to zero if exact singularity is detected or the estimate underflows. If rcond is less than machine precision,

A

is singular to working precision.

8: $fail$ – NagError *Input/Output

The NAG error argument (see Section 3.7 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation).

6

Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_ALLOC_FAIL: Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 2.3.1.2 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_BAD_PARAM: On entry, argument $〈value〉$ had an illegal value.
NE_INT: On entry, $n = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $n \geq 0$ .

On entry, $pda = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $pda > 0$ .
NE_INT_2: On entry, $pda = 〈value〉$ and $n = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $pda \geq \max (1, n)$ .
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 2.7.6 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_NO_LICENCE: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 2.7.5 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_REAL: On entry, $anorm = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $anorm \geq 0.0$ .

7

Accuracy

The computed estimate rcond is never less than the true value

ρ

, and in practice is nearly always less than

10 ρ

, although examples can be constructed where rcond is much larger.

8

Parallelism and Performance

nag_dgecon (f07agc) 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.

9

Further Comments

A call to nag_dgecon (f07agc) involves solving a number of systems of linear equations of the form

A x = b

A^{T} x = b

; the number is usually

4

5

and never more than

11

. Each solution involves approximately

2 n^{2}

floating-point operations but takes considerably longer than a call to nag_dgetrs (f07aec) with one right-hand side, because extra care is taken to avoid overflow when

A

is approximately singular.

The complex analogue of this function is nag_zgecon (f07auc).

10

Example

This example estimates the condition number in the

1

-norm of the matrix

A

, where

A = (\begin{matrix} 1.80 & 2.88 & 2.05 & - 0.89 \\ 5.25 & - 2.95 & - 0.95 & - 3.80 \\ 1.58 & - 2.69 & - 2.90 & - 1.04 \\ - 1.11 & - 0.66 & - 0.59 & 0.80 \end{matrix}) .

Here

A

is nonsymmetric and must first be factorized by nag_dgetrf (f07adc). The true condition number in the

1

-norm is

152.16

NAG Library Function Document

nag_dgecon (f07agc)

▸▿ 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

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