Questions tagged [complex-arithmetic]
For questions about implementing and using complex arithmetic operations.
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Why does this implementation for Eisenstein integer pairs of Euclid's method for finding greatest common denominators get stuck for this one point?
My Math SE question determining if a coincident point in a pair of rotated hexagonal lattices is closest to the origin? explains the problem I have. I won't reproduce the whole thing in detail here, ...
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Solving Schrodinger Equation with finite element and Crank-Nicolson?
I have asked this in Mathematic section, but received no reply.
Please let me ask here to see if threr is any difference.
The Schrodinger equation without potential has the following form:
$$\...
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Stable iterative solver for complex symmetric linear systems
I am interested in the iterative solution (preferably Krylov-type solvers) of a problem $\boldsymbol{A}x=b$, with $x,b\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times1}$ and $\boldsymbol{A}\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$. $\...
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Methods to improve the efficiency and the memory requirement of LU factorization for complex symmetric system matrix
I want to solve a linear set of equations (Ax=b) using LU decomposition. My "A" matrix is a complex matrix which is ...
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Split of complex parts in weak form
I am working on a numerical model to simulate the acoustic and elastic wave propagation in frequency domain via the Finite Element Method. Basically, the problem is to solve the Helmholtz equation in ...
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Reference for QR algorithm for complex matrix
I am trying to find out if the known QR algorithm to find the eigenvalues of a real matrix, which can be found in the book Fundamentals of Matrix Computations, can also be used for complex matrices ...
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Fast evaluation functions given by straight-line programs
I have a simple but long function that takes a vector x[10], and outputs a vector y[100]. It is an automatically generated eval function for a multivariate polynomial, ie, there is only (complex) ...
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Algebraic multigrid for complex valued matrices
Assume one uses the classical AMG with Ruge-Stuben coarsening and direct interpolation for solving real valued problems. How can this approach be recycled to also solve complex valued problems like ...
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Computing real normal modes from complex eigenvectors
I'm trying to get the normal modes of a system of springs and dasphots using
the basic dynamic equations for a linear, damped elastic structure:
$ M \ddot{u}(t) + C \dot{u}(t) + K u(t) = f(t) $
to ...
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Complex Eigenvalues using eig (Matlab)
I wanted to find and plot the eigenvalues of large (around $1000\times1000$) matrices. But discovered when using the eig function in matlab, it gives complex ...
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Power of complex-valued neural network
I often see neural networks extended to complex-values. Those networks allow complex input, complex parameters, and complex output. My understanding is that the inner products and point nonlinearities ...
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Mapping from n x n complex symmetric tridiagonal to 2n x 2n real symmetric tridiagonal
In my program I have a complex symmetric tridiagonal matrix. In order to perform some algorithmic optimizations I am searching for a (ideally linear) mapping from $n\times n$ complex symmetric ...
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Numerical computation of the complex elliptic integral $E(k)$ for medium $|k|$
I have implemented Carlson's algorithm for $E(k)$ from Numerical computation
of real or complex elliptic integrals (available from ArXiv eprint, see
also DLMF). It is essentially his formula (46) ...
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What is the computational cost of using complex numbers in contrast to real numbers in matrix operations, e.g. $LU$ or $LDL^T$ factorizations? [duplicate]
I am curious about how much one loses in terms of computational cost when complex numbers are used instead of real numbers?
I guess the number of floating-point operations and memory doubles, but I ...
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Arpack and Matlab give different values for eigenvalues
I am solving a generalized eigenvalues problem with inversed complex shift:
$$(M-\sigma J)^{-1}J \boldsymbol{x} = \boldsymbol{x} \nu \enspace .$$
My matrices are obtained from a finite element ...
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Danger of complex arithmetic in scientific computing
The complex inner product $\langle u,v\rangle$ has two different definitions decided by conventions: $\bar{u}^Tv$ or $u^T\bar{v}$. In BLAS, I found the routines ...
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OpenMP threaded nonlinear solver for complex numbers
Problem:
I have translated Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov solver written by
C. T. Kelley to Fortran and now want to parallelize it on a shared-memory system with OpenMP. In addition, I want to ...
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Reference BLAS/LAPACK from NETLIB is twice as fast as MKL for complex numbers
I'm solving the Helmholtz equation using PETSc. I found with the PETSc configure option --download-f-blas-lapack my program runs twice as fast over running it with ...
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Why would a computational scientist need to implement their own version of std::complex?
Many of the better-known C++ libraries in computational science such as Eigen, Trilinos, and deal.II use the standard C++ template header library object, ...
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Implicitly casting PetscReal to the real part of PetscComplex
The version of PETSc installed on my machine has PetscScalar set to be complex. I am making a matrix which has all real entries.
Something like the following code ...
