DPOSVX(3)      LAPACK routine of NEC Numeric Library Collection      DPOSVX(3)



NAME
       DPOSVX

SYNOPSIS
       SUBROUTINE DPOSVX (FACT, UPLO, N, NRHS, A, LDA, AF, LDAF, EQUED, S, B,
           LDB, X, LDX, RCOND, FERR, BERR, WORK, IWORK, INFO)



PURPOSE
            DPOSVX uses the Cholesky factorization A = U**T*U or A = L*L**T to
            compute the solution to a real system of linear equations
               A * X = B,
            where A is an N-by-N symmetric positive definite matrix and X and B
            are N-by-NRHS matrices.

            Error bounds on the solution and a condition estimate are also
            provided.



       Description:


            The following steps are performed:

            1. If FACT = 'E', real scaling factors are computed to equilibrate
               the system:
                  diag(S) * A * diag(S) * inv(diag(S)) * X = diag(S) * B
               Whether or not the system will be equilibrated depends on the
               scaling of the matrix A, but if equilibration is used, A is
               overwritten by diag(S)*A*diag(S) and B by diag(S)*B.

            2. If FACT = 'N' or 'E', the Cholesky decomposition is used to
               factor the matrix A (after equilibration if FACT = 'E') as
                  A = U**T* U,  if UPLO = 'U', or
                  A = L * L**T,  if UPLO = 'L',
               where U is an upper triangular matrix and L is a lower triangular
               matrix.

            3. If the leading i-by-i principal minor is not positive definite,
               then the routine returns with INFO = i. Otherwise, the factored
               form of A is used to estimate the condition number of the matrix
               A.  If the reciprocal of the condition number is less than machine
               precision, INFO = N+1 is returned as a warning, but the routine
               still goes on to solve for X and compute error bounds as
               described below.

            4. The system of equations is solved for X using the factored form
               of A.

            5. Iterative refinement is applied to improve the computed solution
               matrix and calculate error bounds and backward error estimates
               for it.

            6. If equilibration was used, the matrix X is premultiplied by
               diag(S) so that it solves the original system before
               equilibration.




ARGUMENTS
           FACT      (input)
                     FACT is CHARACTER*1
                     Specifies whether or not the factored form of the matrix A is
                     supplied on entry, and if not, whether the matrix A should be
                     equilibrated before it is factored.
                     = 'F':  On entry, AF contains the factored form of A.
                             If EQUED = 'Y', the matrix A has been equilibrated
                             with scaling factors given by S.  A and AF will not
                             be modified.
                     = 'N':  The matrix A will be copied to AF and factored.
                     = 'E':  The matrix A will be equilibrated if necessary, then
                             copied to AF and factored.

           UPLO      (input)
                     UPLO is CHARACTER*1
                     = 'U':  Upper triangle of A is stored;
                     = 'L':  Lower triangle of A is stored.

           N         (input)
                     N is INTEGER
                     The number of linear equations, i.e., the order of the
                     matrix A.  N >= 0.

           NRHS      (input)
                     NRHS is INTEGER
                     The number of right hand sides, i.e., the number of columns
                     of the matrices B and X.  NRHS >= 0.

           A         (input/output)
                     A is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (LDA,N)
                     On entry, the symmetric matrix A, except if FACT = 'F' and
                     EQUED = 'Y', then A must contain the equilibrated matrix
                     diag(S)*A*diag(S).  If UPLO = 'U', the leading
                     N-by-N upper triangular part of A contains the upper
                     triangular part of the matrix A, and the strictly lower
                     triangular part of A is not referenced.  If UPLO = 'L', the
                     leading N-by-N lower triangular part of A contains the lower
                     triangular part of the matrix A, and the strictly upper
                     triangular part of A is not referenced.  A is not modified if
                     FACT = 'F' or 'N', or if FACT = 'E' and EQUED = 'N' on exit.

                     On exit, if FACT = 'E' and EQUED = 'Y', A is overwritten by
                     diag(S)*A*diag(S).

           LDA       (input)
                     LDA is INTEGER
                     The leading dimension of the array A.  LDA >= max(1,N).

           AF        (input/output)
                     AF is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (LDAF,N)
                     If FACT = 'F', then AF is an input argument and on entry
                     contains the triangular factor U or L from the Cholesky
                     factorization A = U**T*U or A = L*L**T, in the same storage
                     format as A.  If EQUED .ne. 'N', then AF is the factored form
                     of the equilibrated matrix diag(S)*A*diag(S).

                     If FACT = 'N', then AF is an output argument and on exit
                     returns the triangular factor U or L from the Cholesky
                     factorization A = U**T*U or A = L*L**T of the original
                     matrix A.

                     If FACT = 'E', then AF is an output argument and on exit
                     returns the triangular factor U or L from the Cholesky
                     factorization A = U**T*U or A = L*L**T of the equilibrated
                     matrix A (see the description of A for the form of the
                     equilibrated matrix).

           LDAF      (input)
                     LDAF is INTEGER
                     The leading dimension of the array AF.  LDAF >= max(1,N).

           EQUED     (input/output)
                     EQUED is CHARACTER*1
                     Specifies the form of equilibration that was done.
                     = 'N':  No equilibration (always true if FACT = 'N').
                     = 'Y':  Equilibration was done, i.e., A has been replaced by
                             diag(S) * A * diag(S).
                     EQUED is an input argument if FACT = 'F'; otherwise, it is an
                     output argument.

           S         (input/output)
                     S is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (N)
                     The scale factors for A; not accessed if EQUED = 'N'.  S is
                     an input argument if FACT = 'F'; otherwise, S is an output
                     argument.  If FACT = 'F' and EQUED = 'Y', each element of S
                     must be positive.

           B         (input/output)
                     B is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (LDB,NRHS)
                     On entry, the N-by-NRHS right hand side matrix B.
                     On exit, if EQUED = 'N', B is not modified; if EQUED = 'Y',
                     B is overwritten by diag(S) * B.

           LDB       (input)
                     LDB is INTEGER
                     The leading dimension of the array B.  LDB >= max(1,N).

           X         (output)
                     X is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (LDX,NRHS)
                     If INFO = 0 or INFO = N+1, the N-by-NRHS solution matrix X to
                     the original system of equations.  Note that if EQUED = 'Y',
                     A and B are modified on exit, and the solution to the
                     equilibrated system is inv(diag(S))*X.

           LDX       (input)
                     LDX is INTEGER
                     The leading dimension of the array X.  LDX >= max(1,N).

           RCOND     (output)
                     RCOND is DOUBLE PRECISION
                     The estimate of the reciprocal condition number of the matrix
                     A after equilibration (if done).  If RCOND is less than the
                     machine precision (in particular, if RCOND = 0), the matrix
                     is singular to working precision.  This condition is
                     indicated by a return code of INFO > 0.

           FERR      (output)
                     FERR is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (NRHS)
                     The estimated forward error bound for each solution vector
                     X(j) (the j-th column of the solution matrix X).
                     If XTRUE is the true solution corresponding to X(j), FERR(j)
                     is an estimated upper bound for the magnitude of the largest
                     element in (X(j) - XTRUE) divided by the magnitude of the
                     largest element in X(j).  The estimate is as reliable as
                     the estimate for RCOND, and is almost always a slight
                     overestimate of the true error.

           BERR      (output)
                     BERR is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (NRHS)
                     The componentwise relative backward error of each solution
                     vector X(j) (i.e., the smallest relative change in
                     any element of A or B that makes X(j) an exact solution).

           WORK      (output)
                     WORK is DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (3*N)

           IWORK     (output)
                     IWORK is INTEGER array, dimension (N)

           INFO      (output)
                     INFO is INTEGER
                     = 0: successful exit
                     < 0: if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value
                     > 0: if INFO = i, and i is
                           <= N:  the leading minor of order i of A is
                                  not positive definite, so the factorization
                                  could not be completed, and the solution has not
                                  been computed. RCOND = 0 is returned.
                           = N+1: U is nonsingular, but RCOND is less than machine
                                  precision, meaning that the matrix is singular
                                  to working precision.  Nevertheless, the
                                  solution and error bounds are computed because
                                  there are a number of situations where the
                                  computed solution can be more accurate than the
                                  value of RCOND would suggest.



LAPACK routine                  31 October 2017                      DPOSVX(3)