A fast algorithm for the inversion of general Toeplitz matrices

  • Authors:
  • P. G. Martinsson;V. Rokhlin;M. Tygert

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a ''fast'' algorithm for the construction of a data-sparse inverse of a generalToeplitz matrix. The computational cost for inverting an N x N Toeplitz matrix equals the cost of four length-N FFTs plus an O(N)-term. This cost should be compared to the O(N log^2N) cost of previously published methods. Moreover, while those earlier methods are based on algebraic considerations, the procedure of this paper is analysis-based; as a result, its stability does not depend on the symmetry and positive-definiteness of the matrix being inverted. The performance of the scheme is illustrated with numerical examples.