A Block Krylov Method to Compute the Action of the Frechet Derivative of a Matrix Function on a Vector with Applications to Condition Number Estimation

Kandolf, Peter and Relton, Samuel D. (2017) A Block Krylov Method to Compute the Action of the Frechet Derivative of a Matrix Function on a Vector with Applications to Condition Number Estimation. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 39 (4). A1416-A1434.

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Abstract

We design a block Krylov method to compute the action of the Fr�©chet derivative of a matrix function on a vector using only matrix-vector products, i.e., the derivative of $f(A)b$ when $A$ is subject to a perturbation in the direction $E$. The algorithm we derive is especially effective when the direction matrix $E$ in the derivative is of low rank, while there are no such restrictions on $A$. Our results and experiments are focused mainly on Fr�©chet derivatives with rank 1 direction matrices. Our analysis applies to all functions with a power series expansion convergent on a subdomain of the complex plane which, in particular, includes the matrix exponential. We perform an a priori error analysis of our algorithm to obtain rigorous stopping criteria. Furthermore, we show how our algorithm can be used to estimate the 2-norm condition number of $f(A)b$ efficiently. Our numerical experiments show that our new algorithm for computing the action of a Fr�©chet derivative typically requires a small number of iterations to converge and (particularly for single and half precision accuracy) is significantly faster than alternative algorithms. When applied to condition number estimation, our experiments show that the resulting algorithm can detect ill-conditioned problems that are undetected by competing algorithms.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	matrix function, matrix exponential, Krylov subspace, block Krylov subspace, Frechet derivative, condition number
Subjects:	MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 65 Numerical analysis
Depositing User:	Dr Samuel Relton
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2017
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2017 14:13
URI:	https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/2566

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