On exit:
, for
, will be the generalized eigenvalues.
, and
, for
, are the diagonals of the complex Schur form
that would result if the
by
diagonal blocks of the real Schur form of
were further reduced to triangular form using
by
complex unitary transformations.
If is zero, then the th eigenvalue is real; if positive, then the th and st eigenvalues are a complex conjugate pair, with negative.
Note: the quotients
and
may easily overflow or underflow, and
may even be zero. Thus, you should avoid naively computing the ratio
. However,
alphar and
alphai will always be less than and usually comparable with
in magnitude, and
beta will always be less than and usually comparable with
.