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The objective of this research was to compute the principal matrix square root with sparse approximation. A new stable iterative scheme avoiding fully matrix inversion (SIAI) is provided. The analysis on the sparsity and error of the…
This paper addresses the numerical solution of the matrix square root problem. Two fixed point iterations are proposed by rearranging the nonlinear matrix equation $A - X^2 = 0$ and incorporating a positive scaling parameter. The proposals…
This work is to provide a comprehensive treatment of the relationship between the theory of the generalized (palindromic) eigenvalue problem and the theory of the Sylvester-type equations. Under a regularity assumption for a specific matrix…
In various areas of applied numerics, the problem of calculating the logarithm of a matrix A emerges. Since series expansions of the logarithm usually do not converge well for matrices far away from the identity, the standard numerical…
We construct a family of iterations for computing the principal square root of a square matrix $A$ using Zolotarev's rational minimax approximants of the square root function. We show that these rational functions obey a recursion, allowing…
Given a full column rank matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ ($m\geq n$), we consider a special class of linear systems of the form $A^\top Ax=A^\top b+c$ with $x, c \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $b \in \mathbb{R}^{m}$. The occurrence of $c$ in…
This paper is triggered by the preprint "\emph{Computing Matrix Squareroot via Non Convex Local Search}" by Jain et al. (\textit{\textcolor{blue}{arXiv:1507.05854}}), which analyzes gradient-descent for computing the square root of a…
Component-wise accurate algorithms for computing the principal square root of an M-matrix are designed in terms of triplet representations. A triplet representation of an M-matrix $A$ is the triple $(P, {\bf u},{\bf v})$, where the matrix…
In this paper we show how to construct diagonal scalings for arbitrary matrix pencils $\lambda B-A$, in which both $A$ and $B$ are complex matrices (square or nonsquare). The goal of such diagonal scalings is to "balance" in some sense the…
We address the general mathematical problem of computing the inverse $p$-th root of a given matrix in an efficient way. A new method to construct iteration functions that allow calculating arbitrary $p$-th roots and their inverses of…
To understand the solution of a linear, time-invariant differential-algebraic equation, one must analyze a matrix pencil (A,E) with singular E. Even when this pencil is stable (all its finite eigenvalues fall in the left-half plane), the…
This work is a continuation of "Fast and backward stable computation of roots of polynomials" by J.L. Aurentz, T. Mach, R. Vandebril, and D.S. Watkins, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 36(3): 942--973, 2015. In that paper…
This is the first in a series of papers which deal with the development of novel methods for solving a system of linear algebraic equations with a time complexity lower than existing algorithms. The NxN system of linear equations, Ax = b,…
In this paper, several row and column orthogonal projection methods are proposed for solving matrix equation $AXB=C$, where the matrix $A$ and $B$ are full rank or rank deficient and equation is consistent or not. These methods are…
In the last decade matrix polynomials have been investigated with the primary focus on adequate linearizations and good scaling techniques for computing their eigenvalues and eigenvectors. In this article we propose a new method for…
An iterative square root of a function $f$ is a function $g$ such that $g(g(\cdot))=f(\cdot)$. We obtain new characterizations for detecting the non-existence of such square roots for self-maps on arbitrary sets. This is used to prove that…
Computing the matrix square root or its inverse in a differentiable manner is important in a variety of computer vision tasks. Previous methods either adopt the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to explicitly factorize the matrix or use…
As showed in (Fiedler, 1990), any polynomial can be expressed as a characteristic polynomial of a complex symmetric arrowhead matrix. This expression is not unique. If the polynomial is real with only real distinct roots, the matrix can be…
Efficiently solving sparse linear algebraic equations is an important research topic of numerical simulation. Commonly used approaches include direct methods and iterative methods. Compared with the direct methods, the iterative methods…
We propose a new iterative algorithm for generating a subset of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of large matrices which generalizes the method of optimal relaxations. We also give convergence criteria for the iterative process, investigate its…