Gaussian Elimination with Partial Pivoting Can Fail in Practice

DOI10.1137/S0895479892239755MaRDI QIDQ4313383zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leslie Foster

Publication date 16 November 1994

Published in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/s0895479892239755

zbMATH Keywords

numerical stabilityfirst-order differential equationVolterra integral equations of the second kinderror growthGaussian elimination with partial pivoting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion (65F05) Roundoff error (65G50) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10)

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Uses Software

• Regularization tools
• Harwell-Boeing sparse matrix collection
• Algorithm 694

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