Expokit: A Software Package for Computing Matrix Exponentials

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 130-156

  Sidje, Roger B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithms; G.1.3 Numerical Analysis : Numerical Linear Algebra; G.1.7 Numerical Analysis : Ordinary Differential Equations initial value problems; G.4 Mathematics of Computing : Mathematical Software; Krylov methods; Markov chains; Matrix exponential

Indexed keywords

KRYLOV METHODS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS;

LINEAR ALGEBRA;

EID: 0032010619     PISSN: 00983500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/285861.285868     Document Type: Article

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