On 11/01/2011 04:31 PM, Roy Stogner wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Jed Brown wrote:
>
>> The error "IPNorm: The inner product is not well defined!" is
>> usually due to the fact that the B matrix of the eigenproblem is not
>> positive (semi) definite. Are you sure your eigenproblem is
>> definite?
> It's definitely *supposed* to be; this is just the ex17 code that
> builds a laplacian stiffness and L2 mass matrix, as you said.  I can
> even switch from Q_1 quads to P_1 line segments, and as long as I use
> at least 3 of them (4 nodes) I still get that IPNorm error.  Although,
> tweaking the mesh does seem to change the stack trace; the IPNorm
> starts coming from different calls to IPOrthogonalize, then from
> EPSComputeVectors_Hermitian, as I shrink things.
>
>> In that case, I would be interested in trying these
>> matrices to track down the problem.
> matrix_A = [Real part:
>        1.5     -1.5        0        0
>       -1.5        3     -1.5        0
>          0     -1.5        3     -1.5
>          0        0     -1.5      1.5
>
> Imaginary part:
>          0        0        0        0
>          0        0        0        0
>          0        0        0        0
>          0        0        0        0
> ];
>
> matrix_B = [Real part:
> 0.222222 0.111111        0        0
> 0.111111 0.444444 0.111111        0
>          0 0.111111 0.444444 0.111111
>          0        0 0.111111 0.222222
>
> Imaginary part:
>          0        0        0        0
>          0        0        0        0
>          0        0        0        0
>          0        0        0        0
> ];
>
> I forgot to set_precision() on that, but you get the idea.
>
> matrix_B is SPD. matrix_A isn't, but that just ought to mean that one
> of our eigenvalues is 0, right?

Yeah, I agree. Plus, it works with -eps_type lapack, so the problem 
can't be ill-posed...




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