---
name: "pcheevx"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "scalapack-doc"
version: "1.5-11"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pcheevx"
---

# pcheevx(3)

compute selected eigenvalues and, optionally, eigenvectors of a complex hermitian matrix A by calling the recommended sequence of ScaLAPACK routines

## NAME

PCHEEVX - compute selected eigenvalues and, optionally, eigenvectors of a complex hermitian matrix A by calling the recommended sequence of ScaLAPACK routines

## SYNOPSIS

- SUBROUTINE PCHEEVX(

  JOBZ, RANGE, UPLO, N, A, IA, JA, DESCA, VL, VU, IL, IU, ABSTOL, M, NZ, W, ORFAC, Z, IZ, JZ, DESCZ, WORK, LWORK, RWORK, LRWORK, IWORK, LIWORK, IFAIL, ICLUSTR, GAP, INFO )

- CHARACTER

  JOBZ, RANGE, UPLO

- INTEGER

  IA, IL, INFO, IU, IZ, JA, JZ, LIWORK, LRWORK, LWORK, M, N, NZ

- REAL

  ABSTOL, ORFAC, VL, VU

- INTEGER

  DESCA( \* ), DESCZ( \* ), ICLUSTR( \* ), IFAIL( \* ), IWORK( \* )

- REAL

  GAP( \* ), RWORK( \* ), W( \* )

- COMPLEX

  A( \* ), WORK( \* ), Z( \* )

- INTEGER

  BLOCK\_CYCLIC\_2D, DLEN\_, DTYPE\_, CTXT\_, M\_, N\_, MB\_, NB\_, RSRC\_, CSRC\_, LLD\_

- PARAMETER

  ( BLOCK\_CYCLIC\_2D = 1, DLEN\_ = 9, DTYPE\_ = 1, CTXT\_ = 2, M\_ = 3, N\_ = 4, MB\_ = 5, NB\_ = 6, RSRC\_ = 7, CSRC\_ = 8, LLD\_ = 9 )

- REAL

  ZERO, ONE, TEN, FIVE

- PARAMETER

  ( ZERO = 0.0E+0, ONE = 1.0E+0, TEN = 10.0E+0, FIVE = 5.0E+0 )

- INTEGER

  IERREIN, IERRCLS, IERRSPC, IERREBZ

- PARAMETER

  ( IERREIN = 1, IERRCLS = 2, IERRSPC = 4, IERREBZ = 8 )

- LOGICAL

  ALLEIG, INDEIG, LOWER, LQUERY, QUICKRETURN, VALEIG, WANTZ

- CHARACTER

  ORDER

- INTEGER

  CSRC\_A, I, IACOL, IAROW, ICOFFA, IINFO, INDD, INDD2, INDE, INDE2, INDIBL, INDISP, INDRWORK, INDTAU, INDWORK, IROFFA, IROFFZ, ISCALE, ISIZESTEBZ, ISIZESTEIN, IZROW, LALLWORK, LIWMIN, LLRWORK, LLWORK, LRWMIN, LWMIN, MAXEIGS, MB\_A, MB\_Z, MQ0, MYCOL, MYROW, NB, NB\_A, NB\_Z, NEIG, NN, NNP, NP0, NPCOL, NPROCS, NPROW, NQ0, NSPLIT, NZZ, OFFSET, RSRC\_A, RSRC\_Z, SIZEHEEVX, SIZEORMTR, SIZESTEIN

- REAL

  ABSTLL, ANRM, BIGNUM, EPS, RMAX, RMIN, SAFMIN, SIGMA, SMLNUM, VLL, VUU

- INTEGER

  IDUM1( 4 ), IDUM2( 4 )

- LOGICAL

  LSAME

- INTEGER

  ICEIL, INDXG2P, NUMROC

- REAL

  PCLANHE, PSLAMCH

- EXTERNAL

  LSAME, ICEIL, INDXG2P, NUMROC, PCLANHE, PSLAMCH

- EXTERNAL

  BLACS\_GRIDINFO, CHK1MAT, IGAMN2D, PCELGET, PCHETRD, PCHK2MAT, PCLASCL, PCSTEIN, PCUNMTR, PSLARED1D, PSSTEBZ, PXERBLA, SGEBR2D, SGEBS2D, SLASRT, SSCAL

- INTRINSIC

  ABS, CMPLX, ICHAR, MAX, MIN, MOD, REAL, SQRT

## PURPOSE

PCHEEVX computes selected eigenvalues and, optionally, eigenvectors of a complex hermitian matrix A by calling the recommended sequence of ScaLAPACK routines.  Eigenvalues/vectors can be selected by specifying a range of values or a range of indices for the desired eigenvalues.

## NOTES

Each global data object is described by an associated description vector.  This vector stores the information required to establish the mapping between an object element and its corresponding process and memory location.

Let A be a generic term for any 2D block cyclicly distributed array. Such a global array has an associated description vector DESCA. In the following comments, the character \_ should be read as "of the global array".

NOTATION        STORED IN      EXPLANATION\
 \--------------- -------------- --------------------------------------\
 DTYPE\_A(global) DESCA( DTYPE\_ )The descriptor type.  In this case,\
                                DTYPE\_A = 1.\
 CTXT\_A (global) DESCA( CTXT\_ ) The BLACS context handle, indicating\
                                the BLACS process grid A is distribu-\
                                ted over. The context itself is glo-\
                                bal, but the handle (the integer\
                                value) may vary.\
 M\_A    (global) DESCA( M\_ )    The number of rows in the global\
                                array A.\
 N\_A    (global) DESCA( N\_ )    The number of columns in the global\
                                array A.\
 MB\_A   (global) DESCA( MB\_ )   The blocking factor used to distribute\
                                the rows of the array.\
 NB\_A   (global) DESCA( NB\_ )   The blocking factor used to distribute\
                                the columns of the array.\
 RSRC\_A (global) DESCA( RSRC\_ ) The process row over which the first\
                                row of the array A is distributed.\
 CSRC\_A (global) DESCA( CSRC\_ ) The process column over which the\
                                first column of the array A is\
                                distributed.\
 LLD\_A  (local)  DESCA( LLD\_ )  The leading dimension of the local\
                                array.  LLD\_A \>= MAX(1,LOCr(M\_A)).

Let K be the number of rows or columns of a distributed matrix, and assume that its process grid has dimension p x q. LOCr( K ) denotes the number of elements of K that a process would receive if K were distributed over the p processes of its process column.S\
 Similarly, LOCc( K ) denotes the number of elements of K that a process would receive if K were distributed over the q processes of its process row.\
 The values of LOCr() and LOCc() may be determined via a call to the ScaLAPACK tool function, NUMROC:\
\
         LOCr( M ) = NUMROC( M, MB\_A, MYROW, RSRC\_A, NPROW ),\
\
         LOCc( N ) = NUMROC( N, NB\_A, MYCOL, CSRC\_A, NPCOL ).\
 An upper bound for these quantities may be computed by:\
\
         LOCr( M ) \<= ceil( ceil(M/MB\_A)/NPROW )\*MB\_A\
\
         LOCc( N ) \<= ceil( ceil(N/NB\_A)/NPCOL )\*NB\_A

PCHEEVX assumes IEEE 754 standard compliant arithmetic.  To port to a system which does not have IEEE 754 arithmetic, modify the appropriate SLmake.inc file to include the compiler switch -DNO\_IEEE.  This switch only affects the compilation of pslaiect.c.

## ARGUMENTS

   NP = the number of rows local to a given process.\
    NQ = the number of columns local to a given process.

JOBZ    (global input) CHARACTER\*1\
         Specifies whether or not to compute the eigenvectors:\
         \= 'N':  Compute eigenvalues only.\
         \= 'V':  Compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

RANGE   (global input) CHARACTER\*1\
         \= 'A': all eigenvalues will be found.\
         \= 'V': all eigenvalues in the interval \[VL,VU\] will be found.\
         \= 'I': the IL-th through IU-th eigenvalues will be found.

UPLO    (global input) CHARACTER\*1\
         Specifies whether the upper or lower triangular part of the\
         Hermitian matrix A is stored:\
         \= 'U':  Upper triangular\
         \= 'L':  Lower triangular

N       (global input) INTEGER\
         The number of rows and columns of the matrix A.  N \>= 0.

A       (local input/workspace) block cyclic COMPLEX array,\
         global dimension (N, N),\
         local dimension ( LLD\_A, LOCc(JA+N-1) )

        On entry, the Hermitian matrix A.  If UPLO = 'U', only the\
         upper triangular part of A is used to define the elements of\
         the Hermitian matrix.  If UPLO = 'L', only the lower\
         triangular part of A is used to define the elements of the\
         Hermitian matrix.

        On exit, the lower triangle (if UPLO='L') or the upper\
         triangle (if UPLO='U') of A, including the diagonal, is\
         destroyed.

IA      (global input) INTEGER\
         A's global row index, which points to the beginning of the\
         submatrix which is to be operated on.

JA      (global input) INTEGER\
         A's global column index, which points to the beginning of\
         the submatrix which is to be operated on.

DESCA   (global and local input) INTEGER array of dimension DLEN\_.\
         The array descriptor for the distributed matrix A.\
         If DESCA( CTXT\_ ) is incorrect, PCHEEVX cannot guarantee\
         correct error reporting.

VL      (global input) REAL\
         If RANGE='V', the lower bound of the interval to be searched\
         for eigenvalues.  Not referenced if RANGE = 'A' or 'I'.

VU      (global input) REAL\
         If RANGE='V', the upper bound of the interval to be searched\
         for eigenvalues.  Not referenced if RANGE = 'A' or 'I'.

IL      (global input) INTEGER\
         If RANGE='I', the index (from smallest to largest) of the\
         smallest eigenvalue to be returned.  IL \>= 1.\
         Not referenced if RANGE = 'A' or 'V'.

IU      (global input) INTEGER\
         If RANGE='I', the index (from smallest to largest) of the\
         largest eigenvalue to be returned.  min(IL,N) \<= IU \<= N.\
         Not referenced if RANGE = 'A' or 'V'.

ABSTOL  (global input) REAL\
         If JOBZ='V', setting ABSTOL to PSLAMCH( CONTEXT, 'U') yields\
         the most orthogonal eigenvectors.

        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\*norm(T) will be used in its place,\
         where norm(T) is the 1-norm of the tridiagonal matrix\
         obtained by reducing A to tridiagonal form.

        Eigenvalues will be computed most accurately when ABSTOL is\
         set to twice the underflow threshold 2\*PSLAMCH('S') not zero.\
         If this routine returns with ((MOD(INFO,2).NE.0) .OR.\
         (MOD(INFO/8,2).NE.0)), indicating that some eigenvalues or\
         eigenvectors did not converge, try setting ABSTOL to\
         2\*PSLAMCH('S').

        See "Computing Small Singular Values of Bidiagonal Matrices\
         with Guaranteed High Relative Accuracy," by Demmel and\
         Kahan, LAPACK Working Note #3.

        See "On the correctness of Parallel Bisection in Floating\
         Point" by Demmel, Dhillon and Ren, LAPACK Working Note #70

M       (global output) INTEGER\
         Total number of eigenvalues found.  0 \<= M \<= N.

NZ      (global output) INTEGER\
         Total number of eigenvectors computed.  0 \<= NZ \<= M.\
         The number of columns of Z that are filled.\
         If JOBZ .NE. 'V', NZ is not referenced.\
         If JOBZ .EQ. 'V', NZ = M unless the user supplies\
         insufficient space and PCHEEVX is not able to detect this\
         before beginning computation.  To get all the eigenvectors\
         requested, the user must supply both sufficient\
         space to hold the eigenvectors in Z (M .LE. DESCZ(N\_))\
         and sufficient workspace to compute them.  (See LWORK below.)\
         PCHEEVX is always able to detect insufficient space without\
         computation unless RANGE .EQ. 'V'.

W       (global output) REAL array, dimension (N)\
         On normal exit, the first M entries contain the selected\
         eigenvalues in ascending order.

ORFAC   (global input) REAL\
         Specifies which eigenvectors should be reorthogonalized.\
         Eigenvectors that correspond to eigenvalues which are within\
         tol=ORFAC\*norm(A) of each other are to be reorthogonalized.\
         However, if the workspace is insufficient (see LWORK),\
         tol may be decreased until all eigenvectors to be\
         reorthogonalized can be stored in one process.\
         No reorthogonalization will be done if ORFAC equals zero.\
         A default value of 10^-3 is used if ORFAC is negative.\
         ORFAC should be identical on all processes.

Z       (local output) COMPLEX array,\
         global dimension (N, N),\
         local dimension ( LLD\_Z, LOCc(JZ+N-1) )\
         If JOBZ = 'V', then on normal exit the first M columns of Z\
         contain the orthonormal eigenvectors of the matrix\
         corresponding to the selected eigenvalues.  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.

IZ      (global input) INTEGER\
         Z's global row index, which points to the beginning of the\
         submatrix which is to be operated on.

JZ      (global input) INTEGER\
         Z's global column index, which points to the beginning of\
         the submatrix which is to be operated on.

DESCZ   (global and local input) INTEGER array of dimension DLEN\_.\
         The array descriptor for the distributed matrix Z.\
         DESCZ( CTXT\_ ) must equal DESCA( CTXT\_ )

WORK    (local workspace/output) COMPLEX array,\
         dimension (LWORK)\
         WORK(1) returns workspace adequate workspace to allow\
         optimal performance.

LWORK   (local input) INTEGER\
         Size of WORK array.  If only eigenvalues are requested:\
           LWORK \>= N + MAX( NB \* ( NP0 + 1 ), 3 )\
         If eigenvectors are requested:\
           LWORK \>= N + ( NP0 + MQ0 + NB ) \* NB\
         with NQ0 = NUMROC( NN, NB, 0, 0, NPCOL ).

        For optimal performance, greater workspace is needed, i.e.\
           LWORK \>= MAX( LWORK, NHETRD\_LWORK )\
         Where LWORK is as defined above, and\
         NHETRD\_LWORK = N + 2\*( ANB+1 )\*( 4\*NPS+2 ) +\
           ( NPS + 1 ) \* NPS

        ICTXT = DESCA( CTXT\_ )\
         ANB = PJLAENV( ICTXT, 3, 'PCHETTRD', 'L', 0, 0, 0, 0 )\
         SQNPC = SQRT( DBLE( NPROW \* NPCOL ) )\
         NPS = MAX( NUMROC( N, 1, 0, 0, SQNPC ), 2\*ANB )

        NUMROC is a ScaLAPACK tool functions;\
         PJLAENV is a ScaLAPACK envionmental inquiry function\
         MYROW, MYCOL, NPROW and NPCOL can be determined by calling\
         the subroutine BLACS\_GRIDINFO.

        If LWORK = -1, then LWORK is global input and a workspace\
         query is assumed; the routine only calculates the\
         optimal size for all work arrays. Each of these\
         values is returned in the first entry of the corresponding\
         work array, and no error message is issued by PXERBLA.

RWORK   (local workspace/output) REAL array,\
            dimension (LRWORK)\
         On return, WROK(1) contains the optimal amount of\
         workspace required for efficient execution.\
         if JOBZ='N' RWORK(1) = optimal amount of workspace\
            required to compute eigenvalues efficiently\
         if JOBZ='V' RWORK(1) = optimal amount of workspace\
            required to compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors\
            efficiently with no guarantee on orthogonality.\
            If RANGE='V', it is assumed that all eigenvectors\
            may be required.

LRWORK   (local input) INTEGER\
         Size of RWORK\
         See below for definitions of variables used to define LRWORK.\
         If no eigenvectors are requested (JOBZ = 'N') then\
            LRWORK \>= 5 \* NN + 4 \* N\
         If eigenvectors are requested (JOBZ = 'V' ) then\
            the amount of workspace required to guarantee that all\
            eigenvectors are computed is:\
            LRWORK \>= 4\*N + MAX( 5\*NN, NP0 \* MQ0 ) +\
              ICEIL( NEIG, NPROW\*NPCOL)\*NN

           The computed eigenvectors may not be orthogonal if the\
            minimal workspace is supplied and ORFAC is too small.\
            If you want to guarantee orthogonality (at the cost\
            of potentially poor performance) you should add\
            the following to LRWORK:\
               (CLUSTERSIZE-1)\*N\
            where CLUSTERSIZE is the number of eigenvalues in the\
            largest cluster, where a cluster is defined as a set of\
            close eigenvalues: { W(K),...,W(K+CLUSTERSIZE-1) \|\
                                 W(J+1) \<= W(J) + ORFAC\*2\*norm(A) }\
         Variable definitions:\
            NEIG = number of eigenvectors requested\
            NB = DESCA( MB\_ ) = DESCA( NB\_ ) =\
                 DESCZ( MB\_ ) = DESCZ( NB\_ )\
            NN = MAX( N, NB, 2 )\
            DESCA( RSRC\_ ) = DESCA( NB\_ ) = DESCZ( RSRC\_ ) =\
                             DESCZ( CSRC\_ ) = 0\
            NP0 = NUMROC( NN, NB, 0, 0, NPROW )\
            MQ0 = NUMROC( MAX( NEIG, NB, 2 ), NB, 0, 0, NPCOL )\
            ICEIL( X, Y ) is a ScaLAPACK function returning\
            ceiling(X/Y)

        When LRWORK is too small:\
            If LRWORK is too small to guarantee orthogonality,\
            PCHEEVX attempts to maintain orthogonality in\
            the clusters with the smallest\
            spacing between the eigenvalues.\
            If LRWORK is too small to compute all the eigenvectors\
            requested, no computation is performed and INFO=-25\
            is returned.  Note that when RANGE='V', PCHEEVX does\
            not know how many eigenvectors are requested until\
            the eigenvalues are computed.  Therefore, when RANGE='V'\
            and as long as LRWORK is large enough to allow PCHEEVX to\
            compute the eigenvalues, PCHEEVX will compute the\
            eigenvalues and as many eigenvectors as it can.

        Relationship between workspace, orthogonality & performance:\
            If CLUSTERSIZE \>= N/SQRT(NPROW\*NPCOL), then providing\
            enough space to compute all the eigenvectors\
            orthogonally will cause serious degradation in\
            performance. In the limit (i.e. CLUSTERSIZE = N-1)\
            PCSTEIN will perform no better than CSTEIN on 1\
            processor.\
            For CLUSTERSIZE = N/SQRT(NPROW\*NPCOL) reorthogonalizing\
            all eigenvectors will increase the total execution time\
            by a factor of 2 or more.\
            For CLUSTERSIZE \> N/SQRT(NPROW\*NPCOL) execution time will\
            grow as the square of the cluster size, all other factors\
            remaining equal and assuming enough workspace.  Less\
            workspace means less reorthogonalization but faster\
            execution.

        If LRWORK = -1, then LRWORK is global input and a workspace\
         query is assumed; the routine only calculates the size\
         required for optimal performance for all work arrays. Each of\
         these values is returned in the first entry of the\
         corresponding work arrays, and no error message is issued by\
         PXERBLA.

IWORK   (local workspace) INTEGER array\
         On return, IWORK(1) contains the amount of integer workspace\
         required.

LIWORK  (local input) INTEGER\
         size of IWORK\
         LIWORK \>= 6 \* NNP\
         Where:\
           NNP = MAX( N, NPROW\*NPCOL + 1, 4 )\
         If LIWORK = -1, then LIWORK is global input and a workspace\
         query is assumed; the routine only calculates the minimum\
         and optimal size for all work arrays. Each of these\
         values is returned in the first entry of the corresponding\
         work array, and no error message is issued by PXERBLA.

IFAIL   (global output) INTEGER array, dimension (N)\
         If JOBZ = 'V', then on normal exit, the first M elements of\
         IFAIL are zero.  If (MOD(INFO,2).NE.0) on exit, then\
         IFAIL contains the\
         indices of the eigenvectors that failed to converge.\
         If JOBZ = 'N', then IFAIL is not referenced.

ICLUSTR (global output) integer array, dimension (2\*NPROW\*NPCOL)\
         This array contains indices of eigenvectors corresponding to\
         a cluster of eigenvalues that could not be reorthogonalized\
         due to insufficient workspace (see LWORK, ORFAC and INFO).\
         Eigenvectors corresponding to clusters of eigenvalues indexed\
         ICLUSTR(2\*I-1) to ICLUSTR(2\*I), could not be\
         reorthogonalized due to lack of workspace. Hence the\
         eigenvectors corresponding to these clusters may not be\
         orthogonal.  ICLUSTR() is a zero terminated array.\
         (ICLUSTR(2\*K).NE.0 .AND. ICLUSTR(2\*K+1).EQ.0) if and only if\
         K is the number of clusters\
         ICLUSTR is not referenced if JOBZ = 'N'

GAP     (global output) REAL array,\
            dimension (NPROW\*NPCOL)\
         This array contains the gap between eigenvalues whose\
         eigenvectors could not be reorthogonalized. The output\
         values in this array correspond to the clusters indicated\
         by the array ICLUSTR. As a result, the dot product between\
         eigenvectors correspoding to the I^th cluster may be as high\
         as ( C \* n ) / GAP(I) where C is a small constant.

INFO    (global output) INTEGER\
         \= 0:  successful exit\
         \< 0:  If the i-th argument is an array and the j-entry had\
               an illegal value, then INFO = -(i\*100+j), if the i-th\
               argument is a scalar and had an illegal value, then\
               INFO = -i.\
         \> 0:  if (MOD(INFO,2).NE.0), then one or more eigenvectors\
                 failed to converge.  Their indices are stored\
                 in IFAIL.  Ensure ABSTOL=2.0\*PSLAMCH( 'U' )\
                 Send e-mail to scalapack@cs.utk.edu\
               if (MOD(INFO/2,2).NE.0),then eigenvectors corresponding\
                 to one or more clusters of eigenvalues could not be\
                 reorthogonalized because of insufficient workspace.\
                 The indices of the clusters are stored in the array\
                 ICLUSTR.\
               if (MOD(INFO/4,2).NE.0), then space limit prevented\
                 PCHEEVX from computing all of the eigenvectors\
                 between VL and VU.  The number of eigenvectors\
                 computed is returned in NZ.\
               if (MOD(INFO/8,2).NE.0), then PCSTEBZ failed to compute\
                 eigenvalues.  Ensure ABSTOL=2.0\*PSLAMCH( 'U' )\
                 Send e-mail to scalapack@cs.utk.edu
