Numerical Methods for Simultaneous Diagonalization

Angelika Bunse‐Gerstner, Ralph E. Byers, Volker Mehrmann · SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications · 1993

A Jacobi-like algorithm for simultaneous diagonalization of commuting pairs of complex normal matrices by unitary similarity transformations is presented. The algorithm uses a sequence of similarity transformations by elementary complex rotations to drive the off-diagonal entries to zero. Its asymptotic convergence rate is shown to be quadratic and numerically stable. It preserves the special structure of real matrices, quaternion matrices, and real symmetric matrices.

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