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A fast spectral divide-and-conquer method for banded matrices

Numerical Analysis 2018-01-22 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Based on the spectral divide-and-conquer algorithm by Nakatsukasa and Higham [SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 35(3): A1325-A1349, 2013], we propose a new algorithm for computing all the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a symmetric banded matrix. For this purpose, we combine our previous work on the fast computation of spectral projectors in the so called HODLR format, with a novel technique for extracting a basis for the range of such a HODLR matrix. The numerical experiments demonstrate that our algorithm exhibits quasilinear complexity and allows for conveniently dealing with large-scale matrices.

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@article{arxiv.1801.04175,
  title  = {A fast spectral divide-and-conquer method for banded matrices},
  author = {Ana Šušnjara and Daniel Kressner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.04175},
  year   = {2018}
}

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21 pages, 6 figures

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