You can file an issue to have this as a feature request, or better
yet, submit a pull request with code that implements this feature. :)
Thanks,

Jiahao Chen
Staff Research Scientist
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Eka Palamadai <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to extract L and U factors from a tridiagonal matrix factorization
> for my application.
> Would it be possible to have this feature?
>
> The matrix is diagonally dominant, so off-diagonal pivoting may not happen.
> (For the general case where off-diagonal pivoting may happen, a permutation
> could be returned as well)
>
> Thanks,
> Eka
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:12:12 AM UTC-5, Andreas Noack Jensen
> wrote:
>>
>> Extracting the factors of an tridiagonal LU factorisation is not
>> supported. You can see the names of the storage vectors by writing names(F)
>> and the U is easily constructed from those. L is more tricky because of
>> pivoting.
>>
>> Best
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> 2013/12/18 Eka Palamadai <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> How do i factorize a tridiagonal matrix in Julia?
>>> I tried F=lufact(A) as specified in the manual and it works.
>>> But i am not sure how to access the L and U factors from F.
>>> The manual specifies indexing as F[:L], but it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eka
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Med venlig hilsen
>>
>> Andreas Noack Jensen

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