Re: [eigen] Google Summer of Code 2018 - Symmetric Matrices for Eigen

[Christoph Hertzberg <chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2018-05-04 14:01, Peter wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> a small remark on the packed symmetric matrices.
>
> The packing A11, A21, A22, A31, A32, A33 ...
>
> has one advantage that I make regularly use of, namely it can easily be resized,
> especially if one reserves the memory at the beginning.
>
> In addition, a nice feature would be the rotation of a symmetric/hermitian matrix which will be symmetric again,
> provided the rotation matrix U is unitary, A = U * H * U^+ .

`A` being hermitian is true for any `U` of course.
Does there exist an efficient (inplace?, without temporaries?) algorithm 
for unitarian `U`? And does it depend on how `A`/`H` are stored?

Cheers,
Christoph

> Best regards,
> Peter

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