Thu, 21 Nov 2002

14:00 - 15:00
Comlab

Spectral effects with quaternions

Prof Niloufer Mackey
(U.W. Michigan & University of Manchester)
Abstract

Several real Lie and Jordan algebras, along with their associated

automorphism groups, can be elegantly expressed in the quaternion tensor

algebra. The resulting insight into structured matrices leads to a class

of simple Jacobi algorithms for the corresponding $n \times n$ structured

eigenproblems. These algorithms have many desirable properties, including

parallelizability, ease of implementation, and strong stability.

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