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A nonnegative symmetric matrix $B$ has row maxima prescribed by a given vector $r$, if for each index $i$, the maximum entry in the $i$th row of $B$ equals $r_i$. This paper presents necessary and sufficient conditions so that for a given nonnegative ...

A new method for sparse LU factorization is presented that combines a column pre-ordering strategy with a right-looking unsymmetric-pattern multifrontal numerical factorization. The column ordering is selected to give a good a priori upper bound on fill-...

The dominant contribution to communication complexity in factorizing a matrix using QR with column pivoting is due to column-norm updates that are required to process pivot decisions. We use randomized sampling to approximate this process which dramatically ...