Developer Reference for Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library for Fortran

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Date 12/16/2022
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?gecon

Estimates the reciprocal of the condition number of a general matrix in the 1-norm or the infinity-norm.

Syntax

call sgecon( norm, n, a, lda, anorm, rcond, work, iwork, info )

call dgecon( norm, n, a, lda, anorm, rcond, work, iwork, info )

call cgecon( norm, n, a, lda, anorm, rcond, work, rwork, info )

call zgecon( norm, n, a, lda, anorm, rcond, work, rwork, info )

call gecon( a, anorm, rcond [,norm] [,info] )

Include Files
  • mkl.fi, lapack.f90
Description

The routine estimates the reciprocal of the condition number of a general matrix A in the 1-norm or infinity-norm:

κ1(A) =||A||1||A-1||1 = κ(AT) = κ(AH)

κ(A) =||A||||A-1|| = κ1(AT) = κ1(AH).

An estimate is obtained for ||A-1||, and the reciprocal of the condition number is computed as rcond = 1 / (||A|| ||A-1||).

Before calling this routine:

  • compute anorm (either ||A||1 = maxjΣi |aij| or ||A|| = maxiΣj |aij|)

  • call ?getrf to compute the LU factorization of A.

Input Parameters

norm

CHARACTER*1. Must be '1' or 'O' or 'I'.

If norm = '1' or 'O', then the routine estimates the condition number of matrix A in 1-norm.

If norm = 'I', then the routine estimates the condition number of matrix A in infinity-norm.

n

INTEGER. The order of the matrix A; n 0.

a, work

REAL for sgecon

DOUBLE PRECISION for dgecon

COMPLEX for cgecon

DOUBLE COMPLEX for zgecon. Arrays: a(lda,*), work(*).

The array a contains the LU-factored matrix A, as returned by ?getrf. The second dimension of a must be at least max(1,n). The array work is a workspace for the routine.

The dimension of work must be at least max(1, 4*n) for real flavors and max(1, 2*n) for complex flavors.

anorm

REAL for single precision flavors.

DOUBLE PRECISION for double precision flavors.

The norm of the original matrix A (see Description).

lda

INTEGER. The leading dimension of a; lda max(1, n).

iwork

INTEGER. Workspace array, size at least max(1, n).

rwork

REAL for cgecon

DOUBLE PRECISION for zgecon.

Workspace array, size at least max(1, 2*n).

Output Parameters

rcond

REAL for single precision flavors.

DOUBLE PRECISION for double precision flavors.

An estimate of the reciprocal of the condition number. The routine sets rcond = 0 if the estimate underflows; in this case the matrix is singular (to working precision). However, anytime rcond is small compared to 1.0, for the working precision, the matrix may be poorly conditioned or even singular.

info

INTEGER. If info=0, the execution is successful.

If info = -i, the i-th parameter had an illegal value.

LAPACK 95 Interface Notes

Routines in Fortran 95 interface have fewer arguments in the calling sequence than their FORTRAN 77 counterparts. For general conventions applied to skip redundant or reconstructible arguments, see LAPACK 95 Interface Conventions.

Specific details for the routine gecon interface are as follows:

a

Holds the matrix A of size (n, n).

norm

Must be '1', 'O', or 'I'. The default value is '1'.

Application Notes

The computed rcond is never less than r (the reciprocal of the true condition number) and in practice is nearly always less than 10r. A call to this routine involves solving a number of systems of linear equations A*x = b or AH*x = b; the number is usually 4 or 5 and never more than 11. Each solution requires approximately 2*n2 floating-point operations for real flavors and 8*n2 for complex flavors.