Problems in which an operator or function can be represented with asymptotically less data than the naive representation. Not limited to sparse matrices.

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What is the fastest way to calculate the largest eigenvalue of a general matrix?

EDIT: I am testing if any eigenvalues have a magnitude of one or greater. I need to find the largest absolute eigenvalue of a large sparse, non-symmetric matrix. I have been using R's eigen() ...
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Sparse hermitian eigensystems: are there better techniques than Arpack or TRLan?

As a part of other work I need to solve relatively large (~1E5x1E5) and sparse (~100 non-zero elements in each raw in few blocks) hermitian eigensystems. Usually only few eigenvalues+vectors are ...
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Efficient assembly of finite element matrix in MATLAB

Question What is the most efficient algorithm for finding a row of a matrix which matches a given row? This is the same as a table lookup based on multiple criteria. Context Finite Element Matrices ...
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Solving a system with a small rank diagonal update

Suppose I have the original large, sparse linear system: $A\textbf{x}_0=\textbf{b}_0$. Now, I do not have $A^{-1}$ as A is too large to factor or any sort of decomposition of $A$, but assume that I ...
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Is it possible to ignore/discard part of a matrix when finding eigenvalues?

I have have multiple large matrices for which I need to find the largest absolute eigenvalue. I know that there is a large submatrix that does not vary. Is it possible to ignore/discard the submatrix? ...