sptcon(3F)

NAME
     SPTCON - compute the reciprocal of the condition number (in the 1-norm)
     of a real symmetric positive definite tridiagonal matrix using the
     factorization A = L*D*L**T or A = U**T*D*U computed by SPTTRF

SYNOPSIS
     SUBROUTINE SPTCON( N, D, E, ANORM, RCOND, WORK, INFO )

         INTEGER        INFO, N

         REAL           ANORM, RCOND

         REAL           D( * ), E( * ), WORK( * )

PURPOSE
     SPTCON computes the reciprocal of the condition number (in the 1-norm) of
     a real symmetric positive definite tridiagonal matrix using the
     factorization A = L*D*L**T or A = U**T*D*U computed by SPTTRF.

     Norm(inv(A)) is computed by a direct method, and the reciprocal of the
     condition number is computed as
                  RCOND = 1 / (ANORM * norm(inv(A))).


ARGUMENTS
     N       (input) INTEGER
             The order of the matrix A.  N >= 0.

     D       (input) REAL array, dimension (N)
             The n diagonal elements of the diagonal matrix D from the
             factorization of A, as computed by SPTTRF.

     E       (input) REAL array, dimension (N-1)
             The (n-1) off-diagonal elements of the unit bidiagonal factor U
             or L from the factorization of A,  as computed by SPTTRF.

     ANORM   (input) REAL
             The 1-norm of the original matrix A.

     RCOND   (output) REAL
             The reciprocal of the condition number of the matrix A, computed
             as RCOND = 1/(ANORM * AINVNM), where AINVNM is the 1-norm of
             inv(A) computed in this routine.

     WORK    (workspace) REAL array, dimension (N)

     INFO    (output) INTEGER
             = 0:  successful exit
             < 0:  if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value
FURTHER DETAILS
     The method used is described in Nicholas J. Higham, "Efficient Algorithms
     for Computing the Condition Number of a Tridiagonal Matrix", SIAM J. Sci.
     Stat. Comput., Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1986.