The Real Two-Zero Algorithm: A Parallel Algorithm to Reduce a Real Matrix to a Real Schur Form

  • Authors:
  • Mythili Mantharam;P. J. Eberlein

  • Affiliations:
  • City Univ. of New York, New York, NY;State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

We introduce a new method to reduce a real matrix to a real Schur form by a sequence of similarity transformations that are 3D orthogonal transformations. Two significant features of this method are that: all the transformed matrices and all the computations are done in the real field; and it can be easily parallelized. We call the algorithm that uses this method the real two-zero (RTZ) algorithm. We describe both serial and parallel implementations of the RTZ algorithm. Our tests indicate that the rate of convergence to a real Schur form is quadratic for real near-normal matrices with real distinct eigenvalues. Suppose n is the order of a real matrix A. In order to choose a sequence of 3D orthogonal transformations on A, we need to determine some ordering on triples in T={(k,l,m)|1⩽k