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name: "chbevx.f"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "lapack-doc"
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platforms: ["linux"]
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# chbevx.f(3)

## NAME

SRC/chbevx.f

## SYNOPSIS

### Functions/Subroutines

subroutine **chbevx** (jobz, range, uplo, n, kd, ab, ldab, q, ldq, vl, vu, il, iu, abstol, m, w, z, ldz, work, rwork, iwork, ifail, info)\
  **CHBEVX computes the eigenvalues and, optionally, the left and/or right eigenvectors for OTHER matrices**

## Function/Subroutine Documentation

### subroutine chbevx (character jobz, character range, character uplo, integer n, integer kd, complex, dimension( ldab, \* ) ab, integer ldab, complex, dimension( ldq, \* ) q, integer ldq, real vl, real vu, integer il, integer iu, real abstol, integer m, real, dimension( \* ) w, complex, dimension( ldz, \* ) z, integer ldz, complex, dimension( \* ) work, real, dimension( \* ) rwork, integer, dimension( \* ) iwork, integer, dimension( \* ) ifail, integer info)

 **CHBEVX computes the eigenvalues and, optionally, the left and/or right eigenvectors for OTHER matrices**

**Purpose:**

```
!>
!> CHBEVX computes selected eigenvalues and, optionally, eigenvectors
!> of a complex Hermitian band matrix A.  Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
!> can be selected by specifying either a range of values or a range of
!> indices for the desired eigenvalues.
!>
```

**Parameters**

*JOBZ*

```
!>          JOBZ is CHARACTER*1
!>          = 'N':  Compute eigenvalues only;
!>          = 'V':  Compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
!>
```

*RANGE*

```
!>          RANGE is CHARACTER*1
!>          = 'A': all eigenvalues will be found;
!>          = 'V': all eigenvalues in the half-open interval (VL,VU]
!>                 will be found;
!>          = 'I': the IL-th through IU-th eigenvalues will be found.
!>
```

*UPLO*

```
!>          UPLO is CHARACTER*1
!>          = 'U':  Upper triangle of A is stored;
!>          = 'L':  Lower triangle of A is stored.
!>
```

*N*

```
!>          N is INTEGER
!>          The order of the matrix A.  N >= 0.
!>
```

*KD*

```
!>          KD is INTEGER
!>          The number of superdiagonals of the matrix A if UPLO = 'U',
!>          or the number of subdiagonals if UPLO = 'L'.  KD >= 0.
!>
```

*AB*

```
!>          AB is COMPLEX array, dimension (LDAB, N)
!>          On entry, the upper or lower triangle of the Hermitian band
!>          matrix A, stored in the first KD+1 rows of the array.  The
!>          j-th column of A is stored in the j-th column of the array AB
!>          as follows:
!>          if UPLO = 'U', AB(kd+1+i-j,j) = A(i,j) for max(1,j-kd)<=i<=j;
!>          if UPLO = 'L', AB(1+i-j,j)    = A(i,j) for j<=i<=min(n,j+kd).
!>
!>          On exit, AB is overwritten by values generated during the
!>          reduction to tridiagonal form.
!>
```

*LDAB*

```
!>          LDAB is INTEGER
!>          The leading dimension of the array AB.  LDAB >= KD + 1.
!>
```

*Q*

```
!>          Q is COMPLEX array, dimension (LDQ, N)
!>          If JOBZ = 'V', the N-by-N unitary matrix used in the
!>                          reduction to tridiagonal form.
!>          If JOBZ = 'N', the array Q is not referenced.
!>
```

*LDQ*

```
!>          LDQ is INTEGER
!>          The leading dimension of the array Q.  If JOBZ = 'V', then
!>          LDQ >= max(1,N).
!>
```

*VL*

```
!>          VL is REAL
!>          If RANGE='V', the lower bound of the interval to
!>          be searched for eigenvalues. VL < VU.
!>          Not referenced if RANGE = 'A' or 'I'.
!>
```

*VU*

```
!>          VU is REAL
!>          If RANGE='V', the upper bound of the interval to
!>          be searched for eigenvalues. VL < VU.
!>          Not referenced if RANGE = 'A' or 'I'.
!>
```

*IL*

```
!>          IL is INTEGER
!>          If RANGE='I', the index of the
!>          smallest eigenvalue to be returned.
!>          1 <= IL <= IU <= N, if N > 0; IL = 1 and IU = 0 if N = 0.
!>          Not referenced if RANGE = 'A' or 'V'.
!>
```

*IU*

```
!>          IU is INTEGER
!>          If RANGE='I', the index of the
!>          largest eigenvalue to be returned.
!>          1 <= IL <= IU <= N, if N > 0; IL = 1 and IU = 0 if N = 0.
!>          Not referenced if RANGE = 'A' or 'V'.
!>
```

*ABSTOL*

```
!>          ABSTOL is REAL
!>          The absolute error tolerance for the eigenvalues.
!>          An approximate eigenvalue is accepted as converged
!>          when it is determined to lie in an interval [a,b]
!>          of width less than or equal to
!>
!>                  ABSTOL + EPS *   max( |a|,|b| ) ,
!>
!>          where EPS is the machine precision.  If ABSTOL is less than
!>          or equal to zero, then  EPS*|T|  will be used in its place,
!>          where |T| is the 1-norm of the tridiagonal matrix obtained
!>          by reducing AB to tridiagonal form.
!>
!>          Eigenvalues will be computed most accurately when ABSTOL is
!>          set to twice the underflow threshold 2*SLAMCH('S'), not zero.
!>          If this routine returns with INFO>0, indicating that some
!>          eigenvectors did not converge, try setting ABSTOL to
!>          2*SLAMCH('S').
!>
!>          See  by Demmel and
!>          Kahan, LAPACK Working Note #3.
!>
```

*M*

```
!>          M is INTEGER
!>          The total number of eigenvalues found.  0 <= M <= N.
!>          If RANGE = 'A', M = N, and if RANGE = 'I', M = IU-IL+1.
!>
```

*W*

```
!>          W is REAL array, dimension (N)
!>          The first M elements contain the selected eigenvalues in
!>          ascending order.
!>
```

*Z*

```
!>          Z is COMPLEX array, dimension (LDZ, max(1,M))
!>          If JOBZ = 'V', then if INFO = 0, the first M columns of Z
!>          contain the orthonormal eigenvectors of the matrix A
!>          corresponding to the selected eigenvalues, with the i-th
!>          column of Z holding the eigenvector associated with W(i).
!>          If an eigenvector fails to converge, then that column of Z
!>          contains the latest approximation to the eigenvector, and the
!>          index of the eigenvector is returned in IFAIL.
!>          If JOBZ = 'N', then Z is not referenced.
!>          Note: the user must ensure that at least max(1,M) columns are
!>          supplied in the array Z; if RANGE = 'V', the exact value of M
!>          is not known in advance and an upper bound must be used.
!>
```

*LDZ*

```
!>          LDZ is INTEGER
!>          The leading dimension of the array Z.  LDZ >= 1, and if
!>          JOBZ = 'V', LDZ >= max(1,N).
!>
```

*WORK*

```
!>          WORK is COMPLEX array, dimension (N)
!>
```

*RWORK*

```
!>          RWORK is REAL array, dimension (7*N)
!>
```

*IWORK*

```
!>          IWORK is INTEGER array, dimension (5*N)
!>
```

*IFAIL*

```
!>          IFAIL is INTEGER array, dimension (N)
!>          If JOBZ = 'V', then if INFO = 0, the first M elements of
!>          IFAIL are zero.  If INFO > 0, then IFAIL contains the
!>          indices of the eigenvectors that failed to converge.
!>          If JOBZ = 'N', then IFAIL is not referenced.
!>
```

*INFO*

```
!>          INFO is INTEGER
!>          = 0:  successful exit
!>          < 0:  if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value
!>          > 0:  if INFO = i, then i eigenvectors failed to converge.
!>                Their indices are stored in array IFAIL.
!>
```

**Author**

Univ. of Tennessee

Univ. of California Berkeley

Univ. of Colorado Denver

NAG Ltd.

Definition at line **264** of file **chbevx.f**.

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