On a variational formulation of the QSVD and the RSVD (Q1567545)

Generalized singular value decompositions (SVDs) are studied. The authors give an alternative proof of the variational formula for the quotient singular value decomposition (QSVD) of two matrices \(A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times m}\) and \(C\in\mathbb{R}^{p\times m}\) which is a generalization to two matrices of the ordinary SVD and establish an analogous variational formulation for the restricted singular value decomposition (RSVD) of a matrix triplet \(A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times m}\), \(B\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times\ell}\) and \(C\in \mathbb{R}^{p\times m}\) which provides a new understanding of the orthogonal matrices occurring in this decomposition. In order to prove their main results (Theorem 4 and 7), they establish two condensed forms based on orthogonal matrix transformations. The proofs of Theorem 4 and 7 provide deflation procedures for the numerical computation of two orthogonal matrices in the QSVD and RSVD.