J Austral Math Soc Ser B 36 pp381--388, 1995.

Rank-1 perturbations and the Lanczos method, inverse iteration, and Krylov subspaces

Christopher T. Lenard

(Received 3 July 1993; revised 16 September 1993)

Abstract

The heart of the Lanczos algorithm is the systematic generation of orthonormal bases of invariant subspaces of a perturbed matrix. The perturbations involved are special since they are always rank-1 and are the smallest possible in certain senses. These minimal perturbation properties are extended here to more general cases.
  Rank-1 perturbations are also shown to be closely connected to inverse iteration, and thus provide a novel explanation of the global convergence phenomenon of Rayleigh quotient iteration.
  Finally, we show that the restriction to a Krylov subspace of a matrix differs from the restriction of its inverse by a rank-1 matrix.

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Christopher T. Lenard
Department of Mathematics, LaTrobe University, Bendigo, PO Box 199, Bendigo VIC 3550, Australia.