Numeric and symbolic evaluation of the Pfaffian of general skew-symmetric matrices

DOI10.1016/j.cpc.2011.04.025zbMath1221.65105arXiv1012.5022MaRDI QIDQ2275564

C. González-Ballestero, G. F. Bertsch, Luis M. Robledo

Publication date: 9 August 2011

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5022

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examples; Pfaffian; LU-decomposition; pivoting strategy; Householder transformations; skew symmetric matrices; tridiagonalization; Cholesky's factorization; \texttt{FORTRAN 77}; \texttt{FORTRAN 90}; Aitken's block diagonalization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58A17: Pfaffian systems

65F05: Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion

15A16: Matrix exponential and similar functions of matrices

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Uses Software

• BLAS
• Pfaffian

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