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LA_LUDC


Syntax | Arguments | Keywords | Examples | Version History | See Also

The LA_LUDC procedure computes the LU decomposition of an n-column by m-row array as:

A = P L U

where P is a permutation matrix, L is lower trapezoidal with unit diagonal elements (lower triangular if n = m), and U is upper trapezoidal (upper triangular if n = m).

LA_LUDC is based on the following LAPACK routines:

Output Type
LAPACK Routine
Float
sgetrf
Double
dgetrf
Complex
cgetrf
Double complex
zgetrf

For details see Anderson et al., LAPACK Users' Guide, 3rd ed., SIAM, 1999.

Syntax

LA_LUDC, Array, Index [, /DOUBLE] [, STATUS=variable]

Arguments

Array

A named variable containing the real or complex array to decompose. This procedure returns Array as its LU decomposition.

Index

An output vector with MIN(m, n) elements that records the row permutations which occurred as a result of partial pivoting. For 1 < j < MIN(m,n), row j of the matrix was interchanged with row Index[j].

Note
Row numbers within Index start at one rather than zero.

Keywords

DOUBLE

Set this keyword to use double-precision for computations and to return a double-precision (real or complex) result. Set DOUBLE = 0 to use single-precision for computations and to return a single-precision (real or complex) result. The default is /DOUBLE if Array is double precision, otherwise the default is DOUBLE = 0.

STATUS

Set this keyword to a named variable that will contain the status of the computation. Possible values are:

Note
If STATUS is not specified, any error messages will output to the screen.

Examples

The following example uses the LU decomposition on a given array, then determines the residual error of using the resulting lower and upper arrays to recompute the original array:

PRO ExLA_LUDC 
; Create a random array: 
n = 20 
seed = 12321 
array = RANDOMN(seed, n, n) 
 
; Compute LU decomposition. 
aludc = array           ; make a copy 
LA_LUDC, aludc, index 
 
; Extract the lower and upper triangular arrays. 
l = IDENTITY(n) 
u = FLTARR(n, n) 
FOR j = 1,n - 1 DO l[0:j-1,j] = aludc[0:j-1,j] 
FOR j=0,n - 1 DO u[j:*,j] = aludc[j:*,j] 
 
; Reconstruct array, but with rows permuted. 
arecon = l ## u 
; Adjust from LAPACK back to IDL indexing. 
Index = Index - 1 
; Permute the array rows back into correct order. 
; Note that we need to loop in reverse order. 
FOR i = n - 1,0,-1 DO BEGIN & $ 
temp = arecon[*,i] 
arecon[*, i] = arecon[*,index[i]] 
arecon[*, index[i]] = temp 
ENDFOR 
PRINT, 'LA_LUDC Error:', MAX(ABS(arecon - array)) 
END 

When this program is compiled and run, IDL prints:

LA_LUDC error: 4.76837e-007 

Version History

Introduced 5.6

See Also

LA_LUMPROVE, LA_LUSOL, LUDC


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