Engineering
Vol.5 No.5A(2013), Article ID:31804,4 pages DOI:10.4236/eng.2013.55A004
A New Algorithm for Computing the Determinant and the Inverse of a Pentadiagonal Toeplitz Matrix*
Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Zhangzhou Normal University, Zhangzhou, China
Email: yuehuich@fjzs.edu.cn
Copyright © 2013 Yuehui Chen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received January 25, 2013; revised February 26, 2013; accepted March 4, 2013
Keywords: Pentadiagonal Matrix; Toeplitz Matrix; Determinant; Nonsingular; Inverse
ABSTRACT
An effective numerical algorithm for computing the determinant of a pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix has been proposed by Xiao-Guang Lv and others [1]. The complexity of the algorithm is (9n + 3). In this paper, a new algorithm with the cost of (4n + 6) is presented to compute the determinant of a pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix. The inverse of a pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix is also considered.
1. Introduction
Pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix linear systems often occur in several fields such as numerical solution of differential equations, interpolation problems, boundary value problems [1-5], etc. In these areas, the determinants and the inversions of pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrices are considered. In recent years they have become one of the most important and active research field of applied mathematics and computational mathematics increasingly.
In [2], E. Kilic, M. Ei-Mikkawy presented a fast and reliable algorithm with the cost of
for evaluating special nth-order pentadiagonal Toeplitz determinants. In [1], X.G. Lv, T.Z. Huang, J. Le presented an algorithm with the cost of
for calculating the determinant of a pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix and an algorithm for calculating the inverse of a pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix.
In this paper, we present new algorithms for computing the determinant and the inverse of an n-by-n pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix. The complexity of the algorithms are
and
respectively.
This paper is organized as follows: in Section 2, we present some useful notations and lemmas. In Section 3, we are going to derive new two algorithms. Finally, we give an numerical examples to show the performance of our algorithms in Section 4.
2. Notations and Preliminaries
Definition 2.1 Let
be an
matrix. 
is called persymmetric if it symmetric about its northeast-southwest diagonal, i.e.,
for all
and
.
Definition 2.2 Form as

is called Toeplitz matrix.
Toeplitz matrices are all persymmetric matrices.
Lemma 2.1 [6] Let
be an
matrix. Then
(1)
is persymmetric matrix if and only if
;
(2) If
is nonsingular Toeplitz matrix,
is also a Toeplitz matrix, where
is the
exchange matrix, i.e.,
,
is the ith column of identity matrix
of order
.
Without loss of generality, we suppose
in the paper. By computing simply, we have the following conclusion:
Lemma 2.2 Let
be an
Toeplitz matrix
(2.1)
Then the inverse of
is an
Toeplitz matrix, and

where

and
.
Lemma 2.3 Let
where
and
are matrices of size
respectively.
is nonsingular. Then
is nonsingular if and only if
is nonsingular, and

In the current paper, we consider the
pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix of the form
(2.2)
3. Main Results
Decompose the pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix
(2.2) as the following:

where

Partition M into
where
is matrix (2.1),
is zero matrix of size
,
of size
and
of size
.
Thus

where

Denote

Thus

It is noticed that


We have

According to the Lemma 2.3 and deduction above, we have the following results:
Theorem 3.1 Let
be the pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix as (2.2), then (1)
is nonsingular if and only if
and
(2) 
When
, we have that
is nonsingular, and

where

and 
Denote
and
We have

i.e.,
(3.2)


i.e.,
(3.4)
From the Lemma 2.1 and
we have

Thus



Denote
(3.5)
Then 
According to the deduction above, we can obtain Theorem 3.2:
Theorem 3.2 Let the pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix
as (2.2) be nonsingular. Then

where

as above.
Combining with Theorem 3.1 and Theorem 3.2, we obtain the following algorithm:
Algorithm 3.1 (Computing
)
(1) Input
;
(2) Compute

(3) Compute
.
Algorithm 3.2 (Computing
)
(1) Using (3.1), calculate
;
(2) Using (3.2), calculate
;
(3) Using (3.4), calculate
;
(4) Using (3.3) and (3.5), calculate
;
(5) Calculate
;
(6) Calculate
.
Let us now have a look at the number of multiplications and divisions executed by Algorithm 3.1 and 3.2. For Algorithm 3.1, in Step 2, it takes about
operations. Step 3 amounts to 2 operations. On the whole, we need about
operations to compute
. Algorithm 3.1 is better than E. Killic’s algorithm [2] with the cost of
and X.G. Lv’s algorithm [1] with the cost of
. For Algorithm 3.2, in Step 1, it takes 4 operations. Step 2 amounts to
operations. Step 3 amounts to
operations. The cost of step 4 is about
, we make use of the persymmetric matrix. Therefore, we need about
operations computing
. Our algorithm is better than X.G. Lv’s algorithm [1] with the cost of
.
4. An Example
Consider the pentadiagonal Toeplitz matrix as

By Algorithm 3.1, we have

So

Using Algorithm 3.2, we obtain


So

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NOTES
*Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, China (2012D139).

