Newton's method in floating point arithmetic and iterative refinement of generalized eigenvalue problems

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1038-1057

  Tisseur, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backward error; Cholesky method; Forward error; Generalized eigenvalue problem; Iterative refinement; Limiting accuracy; Limiting residual; Newton's method; Rounding error analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035537392     PISSN: 08954798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0895479899359837     Document Type: Article

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