Title
Fast computation of the rank profile matrix and the generalized Bruhat decomposition.
Abstract
The row (resp. column) rank profile of a matrix describes the stair-case shape of its row (resp. column) echelon form. We describe a new matrix invariant, the rank profile matrix, summarizing all information on the row and column rank profiles of all the leading sub-matrices. We show that this normal form exists and is unique over a field but also over any principal ideal domain and finite chain ring. We then explore the conditions for a Gaussian elimination algorithm to compute all or part of this invariant, through the corresponding PLUQ decomposition. This enlarges the set of known elimination variants that compute row or column rank profiles. As a consequence a new Crout base case variant significantly improves the practical efficiency of previously known implementations over a finite field. With matrices of very small rank, we also generalize the techniques of Storjohann and Yang to the computation of the rank profile matrix, achieving an (rω+mn)1+o(1) time complexity for an m×n matrix of rank r, where ω is the exponent of matrix multiplication. Finally, we give connections to the Bruhat decomposition, and several of its variants and generalizations. Consequently, the algorithmic improvements made for the PLUQ factorization, and their implementation, directly apply to these decompositions. In particular, we show how a PLUQ decomposition revealing the rank profile matrix also reveals both a row and a column echelon form of the input matrix or of any of its leading sub-matrices, by a simple post-processing made of row and column permutations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jsc.2016.11.011
Journal of Symbolic Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gaussian elimination,Rank profile,Echelon form,PLUQ decomposition,Bruhat decomposition,McCoy's rank,Finite chain ring
Rank (linear algebra),Discrete mathematics,Row and column spaces,Combinatorics,Elementary matrix,Matrix decomposition,Augmented matrix,Rank (graph theory),Gaussian elimination,Row echelon form,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
83
0747-7171
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean-Guillaume Dumas142868.48
Clément Pernet224339.00
Ziad Sultan3332.80