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# NAG Library Function Documentnag_ztbcon (f07vuc)

## 1  Purpose

nag_ztbcon (f07vuc) estimates the condition number of a complex triangular band matrix.

## 2  Specification

 #include #include
 void nag_ztbcon (Nag_OrderType order, Nag_NormType norm, Nag_UploType uplo, Nag_DiagType diag, Integer n, Integer kd, const Complex ab[], Integer pdab, double *rcond, NagError *fail)

## 3  Description

nag_ztbcon (f07vuc) estimates the condition number of a complex triangular band matrix $A$, in either the $1$-norm or the $\infty$-norm:
 $κ1A=A1A-11 or κ∞A=A∞A-1∞ .$
Note that ${\kappa }_{\infty }\left(A\right)={\kappa }_{1}\left({A}^{\mathrm{T}}\right)$.
Because the condition number is infinite if $A$ is singular, the function actually returns an estimate of the reciprocal of the condition number.
The function computes ${‖A‖}_{1}$ or ${‖A‖}_{\infty }$ exactly, and uses Higham's implementation of Hager's method (see Higham (1988)) to estimate ${‖{A}^{-1}‖}_{1}$ or ${‖{A}^{-1}‖}_{\infty }$.

## 4  References

Higham N J (1988) FORTRAN codes for estimating the one-norm of a real or complex matrix, with applications to condition estimation ACM Trans. Math. Software 14 381–396

## 5  Arguments

1:     orderNag_OrderTypeInput
On entry: the order argument specifies the two-dimensional storage scheme being used, i.e., row-major ordering or column-major ordering. C language defined storage is specified by ${\mathbf{order}}=\mathrm{Nag_RowMajor}$. See Section 3.2.1.3 in the Essential Introduction for a more detailed explanation of the use of this argument.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{order}}=\mathrm{Nag_RowMajor}$ or Nag_ColMajor.
2:     normNag_NormTypeInput
On entry: indicates whether ${\kappa }_{1}\left(A\right)$ or ${\kappa }_{\infty }\left(A\right)$ is estimated.
${\mathbf{norm}}=\mathrm{Nag_OneNorm}$
${\kappa }_{1}\left(A\right)$ is estimated.
${\mathbf{norm}}=\mathrm{Nag_InfNorm}$
${\kappa }_{\infty }\left(A\right)$ is estimated.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{norm}}=\mathrm{Nag_OneNorm}$ or $\mathrm{Nag_InfNorm}$.
3:     uploNag_UploTypeInput
On entry: specifies whether $A$ is upper or lower triangular.
${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Upper}$
$A$ is upper triangular.
${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Lower}$
$A$ is lower triangular.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Upper}$ or $\mathrm{Nag_Lower}$.
4:     diagNag_DiagTypeInput
On entry: indicates whether $A$ is a nonunit or unit triangular matrix.
${\mathbf{diag}}=\mathrm{Nag_NonUnitDiag}$
$A$ is a nonunit triangular matrix.
${\mathbf{diag}}=\mathrm{Nag_UnitDiag}$
$A$ is a unit triangular matrix; the diagonal elements are not referenced and are assumed to be $1$.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{diag}}=\mathrm{Nag_NonUnitDiag}$ or $\mathrm{Nag_UnitDiag}$.
5:     nIntegerInput
On entry: $n$, the order of the matrix $A$.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{n}}\ge 0$.
6:     kdIntegerInput
On entry: ${k}_{d}$, the number of superdiagonals of the matrix $A$ if ${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Upper}$, or the number of subdiagonals if ${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Lower}$.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{kd}}\ge 0$.
7:     ab[$\mathit{dim}$]const ComplexInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array ab must be at least $\mathrm{max}\phantom{\rule{0.125em}{0ex}}\left(1,{\mathbf{pdab}}×{\mathbf{n}}\right)$.
On entry: the $n$ by $n$ triangular band matrix $A$.
This is stored as a notional two-dimensional array with row elements or column elements stored contiguously. The storage of elements of ${A}_{ij}$, depends on the order and uplo arguments as follows:
• if ${\mathbf{order}}=\mathrm{Nag_ColMajor}$ and ${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Upper}$,
${A}_{ij}$ is stored in ${\mathbf{ab}}\left[{k}_{d}+i-j+\left(j-1\right)×{\mathbf{pdab}}\right]$, for $j=1,\dots ,n$ and $i=\mathrm{max}\phantom{\rule{0.125em}{0ex}}\left(1,j-{k}_{d}\right),\dots ,j$;
• if ${\mathbf{order}}=\mathrm{Nag_ColMajor}$ and ${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Lower}$,
${A}_{ij}$ is stored in ${\mathbf{ab}}\left[i-j+\left(j-1\right)×{\mathbf{pdab}}\right]$, for $j=1,\dots ,n$ and $i=j,\dots ,\mathrm{min}\phantom{\rule{0.125em}{0ex}}\left(n,j+{k}_{d}\right)$;
• if ${\mathbf{order}}=\mathrm{Nag_RowMajor}$ and ${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Upper}$,
${A}_{ij}$ is stored in ${\mathbf{ab}}\left[j-i+\left(i-1\right)×{\mathbf{pdab}}\right]$, for $i=1,\dots ,n$ and $j=i,\dots ,\mathrm{min}\phantom{\rule{0.125em}{0ex}}\left(n,i+{k}_{d}\right)$;
• if ${\mathbf{order}}=\mathrm{Nag_RowMajor}$ and ${\mathbf{uplo}}=\mathrm{Nag_Lower}$,
${A}_{ij}$ is stored in ${\mathbf{ab}}\left[{k}_{d}+j-i+\left(i-1\right)×{\mathbf{pdab}}\right]$, for $i=1,\dots ,n$ and $j=\mathrm{max}\phantom{\rule{0.125em}{0ex}}\left(1,i-{k}_{d}\right),\dots ,i$.
If ${\mathbf{diag}}=\mathrm{Nag_UnitDiag}$, the diagonal elements of $\mathrm{AB}$ are assumed to be $1$, and are not referenced.
8:     pdabIntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) of the matrix $A$ in the array ab.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{pdab}}\ge {\mathbf{kd}}+1$.
9:     rconddouble *Output
On exit: an estimate of the reciprocal of the condition number of $A$. rcond is set to zero if exact singularity is detected or the estimate underflows. If rcond is less than machine precision, $A$ is singular to working precision.
10:   failNagError *Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 3.6 in the Essential Introduction).

## 6  Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_ALLOC_FAIL
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
On entry, argument $〈\mathit{\text{value}}〉$ had an illegal value.
NE_INT
On entry, ${\mathbf{kd}}=〈\mathit{\text{value}}〉$.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{kd}}\ge 0$.
On entry, ${\mathbf{n}}=〈\mathit{\text{value}}〉$.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{n}}\ge 0$.
On entry, ${\mathbf{pdab}}=〈\mathit{\text{value}}〉$.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{pdab}}>0$.
NE_INT_2
On entry, ${\mathbf{pdab}}=〈\mathit{\text{value}}〉$ and ${\mathbf{kd}}=〈\mathit{\text{value}}〉$.
Constraint: ${\mathbf{pdab}}\ge {\mathbf{kd}}+1$.
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR
An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.

## 7  Accuracy

The computed estimate rcond is never less than the true value $\rho$, and in practice is nearly always less than $10\rho$, although examples can be constructed where rcond is much larger.

A call to nag_ztbcon (f07vuc) involves solving a number of systems of linear equations of the form $Ax=b$ or ${A}^{\mathrm{H}}x=b$; the number is usually $5$ and never more than $11$. Each solution involves approximately $8nk$ real floating point operations (assuming $n\gg k$) but takes considerably longer than a call to nag_ztbtrs (f07vsc) with one right-hand side, because extra care is taken to avoid overflow when $A$ is approximately singular.
The real analogue of this function is nag_dtbcon (f07vgc).

## 9  Example

This example estimates the condition number in the $1$-norm of the matrix $A$, where
 $A= -1.94+4.43i 0.00+0.00i 0.00+0.00i 0.00+0.00i -3.39+3.44i 4.12-4.27i 0.00+0.00i 0.00+0.00i 1.62+3.68i -1.84+5.53i 0.43-2.66i 0.00+0.00i 0.00+0.00i -2.77-1.93i 1.74-0.04i 0.44+0.10i .$
Here $A$ is treated as a lower triangular band matrix with two subdiagonals. The true condition number in the $1$-norm is $71.51$.

### 9.1  Program Text

Program Text (f07vuce.c)

### 9.2  Program Data

Program Data (f07vuce.d)

### 9.3  Program Results

Program Results (f07vuce.r)