Symplectic Householder transformations for a QR-like decomposition, a geometric and algebraic approaches (Q2479409)

By a geometric approach the authors study the skew-Hamiltonian 2-D Householder transformations in details. Then, by the algebraic approach, they present more general elementary symplectic Householder transformations: the 2-D symplectic Householder transformations. Using these transformations only, an algorithm for computing an SR factorization is implemented. It is proved that the algorithm is the corresponding one, in the symplectic case, to the QR-factorization, via Householder transformation, in the Euclidean case. New results are remarkable and new algorithm reveals promising from both the theoretical and the numerical point of view.