Volume 17, pp. 195-205, 2004.

Improved initialization of the accelerated and robust QR-like polynomial root-finding

Dario A. Bini, Luca Gemignani, and Victor Y. Pan

Abstract

We approximate polynomial roots numerically as the eigenvalues of a unitary diagonal plus rank-one matrix. We rely on our earlier adaptation of the $QR$ algorithm, which exploits the semiseparable matrix structure to approximate the eigenvalues in a fast and robust way, but we substantially improve the performance of the resulting algorithm at the initial stage, as confirmed by our numerical tests.

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Key words

$QR$ iteration, eigenvalue computation, polynomial roots, semiseparable matrices, DFT, FFT, Moebius transformation.

AMS subject classifications

65H17, 65F15.

Links to the cited ETNA articles

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