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f01fpf (complex_​tri_​matrix_​sqrt)

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1 Purpose

f01fpf computes the principal matrix square root, A1/2, of a complex upper triangular n×n matrix A.

2 Specification

Fortran Interface
Subroutine f01fpf ( n, a, lda, ifail)
Integer, Intent (In) :: n, lda
Integer, Intent (Inout) :: ifail
Complex (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (Inout) :: a(lda,*)
C Header Interface
#include <nag.h>
void  f01fpf_ (const Integer *n, Complex a[], const Integer *lda, Integer *ifail)
The routine may be called by the names f01fpf or nagf_matop_complex_tri_matrix_sqrt.

3 Description

A square root of a matrix A is a solution X to the equation X2=A. A nonsingular matrix has multiple square roots. For a matrix with no eigenvalues on the closed negative real line, the principal square root, denoted by A1/2, is the unique square root whose eigenvalues lie in the open right half-plane.
f01fpf computes A1/2, where A is an upper triangular matrix. A1/2 is also upper triangular.
The algorithm used by f01fpf is described in Björck and Hammarling (1983). In addition a blocking scheme described in Deadman et al. (2013) is used.

4 References

Björck Å and Hammarling S (1983) A Schur method for the square root of a matrix Linear Algebra Appl. 52/53 127–140
Deadman E, Higham N J and Ralha R (2013) Blocked Schur Algorithms for Computing the Matrix Square Root Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing: 11th International Conference, (PARA 2012, Helsinki, Finland) P. Manninen and P. Öster, Eds Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7782 171–181 Springer–Verlag
Higham N J (2008) Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, USA

5 Arguments

1: n Integer Input
On entry: n, the order of the matrix A.
Constraint: n0.
2: a(lda,*) Complex (Kind=nag_wp) array Input/Output
Note: the second dimension of the array a must be at least n.
On entry: the n×n upper triangular matrix A.
On exit: contains, if ifail=0, the n×n principal matrix square root, A1/2. Alternatively, if ifail=1, contains an n×n non-principal square root of A.
3: lda Integer Input
On entry: the first dimension of the array a as declared in the (sub)program from which f01fpf is called.
Constraint: ldan.
4: ifail Integer Input/Output
On entry: ifail must be set to 0, −1 or 1 to set behaviour on detection of an error; these values have no effect when no error is detected.
A value of 0 causes the printing of an error message and program execution will be halted; otherwise program execution continues. A value of −1 means that an error message is printed while a value of 1 means that it is not.
If halting is not appropriate, the value −1 or 1 is recommended. If message printing is undesirable, then the value 1 is recommended. Otherwise, the value 0 is recommended. When the value -1 or 1 is used it is essential to test the value of ifail on exit.
On exit: ifail=0 unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

If on entry ifail=0 or −1, explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by x04aaf).
Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
ifail=1
A has negative or semisimple, vanishing eigenvalues. The principal square root is not defined in this case; a non-principal square root is returned.
ifail=2
A has a defective vanishing eigenvalue. The square root cannot be found in this case.
ifail=3
An internal error occurred. It is likely that the routine was called incorrectly.
ifail=-1
On entry, n=value.
Constraint: n0.
ifail=-3
On entry, lda=value and n=value.
Constraint: ldan.
ifail=-99
An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.
See Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
ifail=-399
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
ifail=-999
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 9 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.

7 Accuracy

The computed square root X^ satisfies X^2=A+ΔA, where |ΔA|O(ε)n|X^|2, where ε is machine precision. The order of the change in A is to be interpreted elementwise.

8 Parallelism and Performance

Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
f01fpf is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.
f01fpf 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 routine. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.

9 Further Comments

The cost of the algorithm is n3/3 complex floating-point operations; see Algorithm 6.3 in Higham (2008). O(2×n2) of complex allocatable memory is required by the routine.
If A is a full matrix, then f01fnf should be used to compute the principal square root.
If condition number and residual bound estimates are required, then f01kdf should be used. For further discussion of the condition of the matrix square root see Section 6.1 of Higham (2008).

10 Example

This example finds the principal matrix square root of the matrix
A = ( 2i 14+02i 12+03i 6+04i 0i+0 −5+12i 6+18i 9+16i 0i+0 0i+00 3-04i 16-04i 0i+0 0i+00 0i+00 4i+00 ) .  

10.1 Program Text

Program Text (f01fpfe.f90)

10.2 Program Data

Program Data (f01fpfe.d)

10.3 Program Results

Program Results (f01fpfe.r)