Updating the singular value decomposition

  • Authors:
  • Philip I. Davies;Matthew I. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK;Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The spectral decomposition of a symmetric matrix A with small off-diagonal and distinct diagonal elements can be approximated using a direct scheme of R. Davies and Modi (Linear Algebra Appl. 77 (1986) 61). In this paper a generalization of this method for computing the singular value decomposition of close-to-diagonal A ∈ Rm×n is presented. When A has repeated or "close" singular values it is possible to apply the direct method to split the problem in two with one part containing the well-separated singular values and one requiring the computation of the "close" singular values.