Permuting Spiked Matrices to Triangular Form and its Application to the Forrest-Tomlin Update

This paper is concerned with the problem of permuting a spiked matrix to triangular form. A spiked matrix results from changing one column or one row in a triangular matrix. In this paper we focus on changing one column in an upper triangular matrix. Spiked matrices arise in updating the LU factors of a matrix … Read more