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Re: forwarded message from Donald Tournier
- From: "Donald Tournier" <d dot tournier at ich dot ucl dot ac dot uk>
- To: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:28:15 -0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: forwarded message from Donald Tournier
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Thanks for all the tips. Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately), I have
just realised that I can exploit some of the symmetries in my problem to
reduce it to a real MxN inversion problem. I hope I haven't wasted
people's time too much...
However, I would be nice if the GSL had those functions in it: I was in
the middle of porting my code from matlab to C, and it was a little
frustrating to discover that I couldn't do it. If I have some spare time,
I might go through the LAPACK code, and see if I can port over to the GSL.
Not anytime soon, unfortunately...
Just for completeness, the aim was to obtain the least-squares spherical
harmonic decomposition of a bunch of measurements over the surface of a
sphere. The problem will usually be over-determined (hence M!=N), and the
symmetry I was alluding to is due to the fact that the measurements are
real quantities, implying conjugate symmetry in the components of the
harmonic series. I am using a Linux workstation, and performance using the
real inversion technique is pretty good (1,000,000 fits in around 20 sec).
Thanks for the advice, I'll spend a little more time thinking about the
problem the next time...
Donald.
C J Kenneth Tan -- Heuchera Technologies said:
> Donald,
>
> You can find the routines that you need in LAPACK. The routine to
> perform complex SVD is CGESVD and the routine to perform double
> complex SVD is ZGESVD. You can also use CGETRF and CGETRI (or ZGETRF
> and ZGETRI in the case of double complex) to perform generalized
> matrix inverse (xGETRF and xGETRI pairs of routines use LU method).
>
> What is the application of your code? What is the environment
> (OS/machine) that you will be running the code? Is speed a
> consideration?
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
>
> Ken
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> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Brian Gough wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:43:27 +0000
>> From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
>> To: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com
>> Subject: forwarded message from Donald Tournier
>>
>> ------- start of forwarded message -------
>> From: "Donald Tournier" <d.tournier@ich.ucl.ac.uk>
>> To: help-gsl@gnu.org
>> Subject: [Help-gsl] MxN complex SVD
>> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:08:59 -0000 (GMT)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to find the inverse of a general MxN complex matrix. I was
>> thinking
>> of doing this using SVD, but I can only find SVD functions for real
>> matrices. Are there any (or are there any plans to add) equivalent SVD
>> functions for general complex matrices in the GSL? If not, could anyone
>> help me to write such a function (given that I have no experience of the
>> workings of SVD)?
>>
>> Alternatively, maybe someone could suggest a (potentially better) way of
>> inverting a general MxN complex matrix?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Donald Tournier
>>
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>> Institute of Child Health
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