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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Help - non-integral power of a matrix?
- Keywords: matrix
- Message-ID: <1173@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 14:08:06 GMT
- References: <Aug.10.15.45.34.1992.26563@clam.rutgers.edu>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <Aug.10.15.45.34.1992.26563@clam.rutgers.edu> gonzalez@clam.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes:
- >
- >Hi. Does anyone know of an algorithm to find a non-integral
- >power of a matrix, e.g. A^.5 or A^1.3? Thus, A^2 is the same
- >as AxA and A^0 is the identity.
-
- Yes. _Run_ do not walk, to the nearest copy of _Matrix Computations_ by
- Golub and van Loan. Read carefully the part about the matrix exponential.
- Do not fail to notice the ominous title of one of the more important
- references on this subject: "Nineteen Dubious Ways to Compute the Matrix
- Exponential", and thus chastened, implement one of the recommended algorithms
- (Shur decomposition or Squaring, scaling and Pade).
-
- I've had good success with the squaring, scaling & Pade approach.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-
-
- P.S. this should be in a FAQ, right?
-