com.imsl.math
Class SymEigen

java.lang.Object
  com.imsl.math.SymEigen

public class SymEigen

extends Object

Computes the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a real symmetric matrix. Orthogonal similarity transformations are used to reduce the matrix to an equivalent symmetric tridiagonal matrix. These transformations are accumulated. An implicit rational QR algorithm is used to compute the eigenvalues of this tridiagonal matrix. The eigenvectors are computed using the eigenvalues as perfect shifts, Parlett (1980, pages 169, 172). The reduction routine is based on the EISPACK routine TRED2. See Smith et al. (1976) for the EISPACK routines. Further details, some timing data, and credits are given in Hanson et al. (1990).

Let M = the number of eigenvalues, = the array of eigenvalues, and is the associated eigenvector with jth eigenvalue.

Also, let be the machine precision. The performance index, , is defined to be

While the exact value of is highly machine dependent, the performance of SymEigen is considered excellent if , good if , and poor if . The performance index was first developed by the EISPACK project at Argonne National Laboratory; see Smith et al. (1976, pages 124-125).

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Constructor Summary

SymEigen(double[][] a)
Constructs the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors for a real symmetric matrix.

SymEigen(double[][] a, boolean computeVectors)
Constructs the eigenvalues and (optionally) the eigenvectors for a real symmetric matrix.

Method Summary

double[]	getValues() Returns the eigenvalues
double[][]	getVectors() Return the eigenvectors of a symmetric matrix of type double.
double	performanceIndex(double[][] a) Returns the performance index of a real symmetric eigensystem.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SymEigen

public SymEigen(double[][] a)

Constructs the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors for a real symmetric matrix.

Parameters:

a - is the symmetric matrix whose eigensystem is to be constructed.

SymEigen

public SymEigen(double[][] a,
                boolean computeVectors)

Constructs the eigenvalues and (optionally) the eigenvectors for a real symmetric matrix.

Parameters:

a - a double symmetric matrix whose eigensystem is to be constructed

computeVectors - a boolean, true if the eigenvectors are to be computed

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - is thrown when the lengths of the rows of the input matrix are not uniform.

Method Detail

getValues

public double[] getValues()

Returns the eigenvalues

Returns:

a double array containing the eigenvalues in descending order. If the algorithm fails to converge on an eigenvalue, that eigenvalue is set to NaN.

getVectors

public double[][] getVectors()

Return the eigenvectors of a symmetric matrix of type double.

Returns:

a double array containing the eigenvectors. The j-th column of the eigenvector matrix corresponds to the j-th eigenvalue. The eigenvectors are normalized to have Euclidean length one. If the eigenvectors were not computed by the constructor, then null is returned.

performanceIndex

public double performanceIndex(double[][] a)

Returns the performance index of a real symmetric eigensystem.

Parameters:

a - a double symmetric matrix

Returns:

a double scalar value indicating how well the algorithms which have computed the eigenvalue and eigenvector pairs have performed. A performance index less than 1 is considered excellent, 1 to 100 is good, while greater than 100 is considered poor.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - is thrown when the lengths of the rows of the input matrix are not uniform.