Scilab Website | Contribute with GitLab | Mailing list archives | ATOMS toolboxes
Scilab Online Help
5.4.1 - English

Change language to:
Français - 日本語 - Português - Русский

Please note that the recommended version of Scilab is 2025.0.0. This page might be outdated.
See the recommended documentation of this function

Scilab help >> Sparse Matrix > Sparse Decompositions > spchol

spchol

sparse cholesky factorization

Calling Sequence

[R,P] = spchol(X)

Arguments

X

symmetric positive definite real sparse matrix

P

permutation matrix

R

cholesky factor

Description

[R,P] = spchol(X) produces a lower triangular matrix R such that P*R*R'*P' = X.

Examples

X=[
3.,  0.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  0. ;
0.,  5.,  4.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0. ;
0.,  4.,  5.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0. ;
2.,  0.,  0.,  3.,  0.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  0. ;
0.,  0.,  0.,  0. , 5.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  4. ;
0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  4.,  0.,  3.,  0.,  3.,  0. ;
2.,  0.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  0.,  3.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  0. ;
0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  3.,  0.,  4.,  0.,  3.,  0. ;
2.,  0.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  0.,  2.,  0.,  3.,  0.,  0. ;
0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  3.,  0.,  3.,  0.,  4.,  0. ;
0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  4.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  5.];
X=sparse(X);[R,P] = spchol(X);
max(P*R*R'*P'-X)

See Also

  • sparse — sparse matrix definition
  • lusolve — sparse linear system solver
  • luget — extraction of sparse LU factors
  • chol — Cholesky factorization
Report an issue
<< lusolve Sparse Decompositions Linear Equations (Iterative Solvers) >>

Copyright (c) 2022-2024 (Dassault Systèmes)
Copyright (c) 2017-2022 (ESI Group)
Copyright (c) 2011-2017 (Scilab Enterprises)
Copyright (c) 1989-2012 (INRIA)
Copyright (c) 1989-2007 (ENPC)
with contributors
Last updated:
Tue Apr 02 17:36:22 CEST 2013