Report Number: CS-TR-79-735
Institution: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
Title: Kronecker's canonical form and the QZ algorithm
Author: Wilkinson, James Hardy
Date: April 1979
Abstract: In the QZ algorithm the eigenvalues of Ax = $\lambda$Bx are computed via a reduction to the form $\tilde{A}$x = $\lambda \tilde{B}$x where $\tilde{A}$ and $\tilde{B}$ are upper triangular. The eigenvalues are given by ${\lambda}_i$ = $a_{ii}$/$b_{ii}$. It is shown that when the pencil $\tilde{A}$ - $\lambda \tilde{B}$ is singular or nearly singular a value of ${\lambda}_i$ may have no significance even when $\tilde{a}_{ii}$ and $\tilde{b}_{ii}$ are of full size.
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