The accurate and efficient solution of a totally positive generalized Vandermonde linear system

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 142-152

  Demmel, James ^a   Koev, Plamen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidiagonal decomposition; Generalized Vandermonde matrix; High relative accuracy; Schur function; Total positivity

Indexed keywords

BIDIAGONAL DECOMPOSITION; GENERALIZED VANDERMONDE MATRIX; HIGH RELATIVE ACCURACY; SCHUR FUNCTION; TOTAL POSITIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 33144470575     PISSN: 08954798     EISSN: 10957162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0895479804440335     Document Type: Article

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