OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING LABORATORY

Numerical Analysis Group Research Report NA-99/03

Computation of Pseudospectra

L N Trefethen

March 1999, 49 pages.

There is more to the computation of pseudospectra than the obvious algorithm of computing singular value decompositions on a grid and sending the results to a contour plotter. Other methods may be hundreds of times faster. The state of the art is reviewed, with emphasis on methods for dense matrices, and a MATLAB code is given.

Key words and phrases:
pseudospectra, eigenvalues, numerical linear algebra

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