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Title
Reliable root detection with the qd-algorithm: when Bernoulli, Hadamard and Rutishauser cooperate
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Abstract
When using Rutishauser's qd-algorithm for the determination of the roots of a polynomial (originally the poles of a meromorphic function), or for related problems, conditions have been formulated for the interpretation of the computed q- and e-values. For a correct interpretation, the so-called critical indices play a crucial role. They index a column of e-values that tends to zero because of a jump in modulus among the poles. For more than 50 years the qd-algorithm in exact arithmetic was considered to be fully understood. In this presentation we push the detailed theoretical investigation of the qd-algorithm even further and we present a new aspect that seems to have been overlooked. We indicate a new element that makes a column of e-values tend to zero, namely a jump in multiplicity among equidistant poles. This result is obtained by combining the qd-algorithm with a deflation technique, and hence mainly relying on Bernoulli's method and Hadamard's formally orthogonal polynomials. Our results round up the theoretical analysis of the qd-algorithm as formulated in its original form, and are of importance in a variety of practical applications as outlined in the introduction.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Applied numerical mathematics. - Amsterdam
Publication
Amsterdam : 2010
ISSN
0168-9274
DOI
10.1016/J.APNUM.2010.04.006
Volume/pages
60 :12 (2010) , p. 1188-1208
ISI
000284082300003
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