NAME

chetrd - reduce a complex Hermitian matrix A to real symmetric tridiagonal form T by a unitary similarity transformation


SYNOPSIS

  SUBROUTINE CHETRD( UPLO, N, A, LDA, D, E, TAU, WORK, LWORK, INFO)
  CHARACTER * 1 UPLO
  COMPLEX A(LDA,*), TAU(*), WORK(*)
  INTEGER N, LDA, LWORK, INFO
  REAL D(*), E(*)
  SUBROUTINE CHETRD_64( UPLO, N, A, LDA, D, E, TAU, WORK, LWORK, INFO)
  CHARACTER * 1 UPLO
  COMPLEX A(LDA,*), TAU(*), WORK(*)
  INTEGER*8 N, LDA, LWORK, INFO
  REAL D(*), E(*)

F95 INTERFACE

  SUBROUTINE HETRD( UPLO, [N], A, [LDA], D, E, TAU, [WORK], [LWORK], 
 *       [INFO])
  CHARACTER(LEN=1) :: UPLO
  COMPLEX, DIMENSION(:) :: TAU, WORK
  COMPLEX, DIMENSION(:,:) :: A
  INTEGER :: N, LDA, LWORK, INFO
  REAL, DIMENSION(:) :: D, E
  SUBROUTINE HETRD_64( UPLO, [N], A, [LDA], D, E, TAU, [WORK], [LWORK], 
 *       [INFO])
  CHARACTER(LEN=1) :: UPLO
  COMPLEX, DIMENSION(:) :: TAU, WORK
  COMPLEX, DIMENSION(:,:) :: A
  INTEGER(8) :: N, LDA, LWORK, INFO
  REAL, DIMENSION(:) :: D, E

C INTERFACE

#include <sunperf.h>

void chetrd(char uplo, int n, complex *a, int lda, float *d, float *e, complex *tau, int *info);

void chetrd_64(char uplo, long n, complex *a, long lda, float *d, float *e, complex *tau, long *info);


PURPOSE

chetrd reduces a complex Hermitian matrix A to real symmetric tridiagonal form T by a unitary similarity transformation: Q**H * A * Q = T.


ARGUMENTS


FURTHER DETAILS

If UPLO = 'U', the matrix Q is represented as a product of elementary reflectors

   Q  = H(n-1) . . . H(2) H(1).

Each H(i) has the form

   H(i)  = I - tau * v * v'

where tau is a complex scalar, and v is a complex vector with v(i+1:n) = 0 and v(i) = 1; v(1:i-1) is stored on exit in

A(1:i-1,i+1), and tau in TAU(i).

If UPLO = 'L', the matrix Q is represented as a product of elementary reflectors

   Q  = H(1) H(2) . . . H(n-1).

Each H(i) has the form

   H(i)  = I - tau * v * v'

where tau is a complex scalar, and v is a complex vector with v(1:i) = 0 and v(i+1) = 1; v(i+2:n) is stored on exit in A(i+2:n,i), and tau in TAU(i).

The contents of A on exit are illustrated by the following examples with n = 5:

if UPLO = 'U': if UPLO = 'L':

  (  d   e   v2  v3  v4 )              (  d                  )
  (      d   e   v3  v4 )              (  e   d              )
  (          d   e   v4 )              (  v1  e   d          )
  (              d   e  )              (  v1  v2  e   d      )
  (                  d  )              (  v1  v2  v3  e   d  )

where d and e denote diagonal and off-diagonal elements of T, and vi denotes an element of the vector defining H(i).