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Why Householder reflection is better than Givens rotation in dense linear algebra?
It’s obvious that Givens rotation works better with sparse matrices. But I don’t know why Householder reflection is better for dense matrices. Does it require less computations? Or it’s numerically ...
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Factorizing a block symmetric matrix
Let $X,Y\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be symmetric matrices. You may assume that $X$ is positive semidefinite and $Y$ negative semidefinite, if needed, but not that they are invertible.
I would like to ...