Homework 4
1. Let H = I − 2uu T
(a) Show that HH T = I
(b) Show that if B = HAH T then A and B have the same eigenvalues
2. Let
A =
10 2 1
2 3 1
1 1 −3
(a) Find the first three iterations of the power method applied to A.
(b) Find the first three iterations of the symmetric power method
applied to A
(c) Suppose you wish to apply the inverse power iteration to find the
two other eigenvalues of A.
i. What is the α value that you would choose for each case? Justify
your choice.
ii. Apply two iterations of the inverse power method using one of
your α choices from the previous part. What is the
approximation to the eigenvalue of A that you get ?
(d) Apply Householder Transformation to reduce A to a tridiagonal
matrix.
3. Let G θ =
?
cos(θ) sin(θ)
−sin(θ) cos(θ)
?
(a) If G θ x = y, show that x and y have the same length.
(b) If x = [x 1 ,x 2 ] T and y = [y 1 ,0], find G θ .
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