On Wiedemann's method of solving sparse linear systems

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0758.00016.] Given a `black box model' of a sparse matrix \(A\) which evaluates \(Ay\) for any \(y\), and a vector \(b\), this paper attempts to find a random precise solution vector \(x\) with \(Ax=b\) by using a refinement of \textit{D. H. Wiedemann}'s method [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory IT-32, 54-62 (1986; Zbl 0607.65015)]. Here the coordinate recurrence method from coding theory and randomization are used in the finite field case. Singular systems are randomly perturbed to obtain non-singular ones; for finding rank and determinant, algebraic methods such as premultiplying by Toeplitz matrices are used that require less multiplies than Wiedemann's original method.




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