Balancing Regular Matrix Pencils

  • Authors:
  • Damien Lemonnier;Paul Van Dooren

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a new diagonal balancing technique for regular matrix pencils $\lambda B-A$, which aims at reducing the sensitivity of the corresponding generalized eigenvalues. It is inspired by the balancing technique of a square matrix A and has a comparable complexity. The diagonally scaled pencil has row and column norms that are balanced in a precise sense. We also show that balancing a pencil boils down to making it closer to some standardized normal pencil. We give numerical examples illustrating that the sensitivity of generalized eigenvalues of a pencil may significantly improve after balancing.