Compute the eigenvalues of a general matrix.
Main difference between eigvals and eig: the eigenvectors aren’t returned.
Parameters: | a : (..., M, M) array_like
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Returns: | w : (..., M,) ndarray
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Raises: | LinAlgError :
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See also
Notes
Broadcasting rules apply, see the numpy.linalg documentation for details.
This is implemented using the _geev LAPACK routines which compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of general square arrays.
Examples
Illustration, using the fact that the eigenvalues of a diagonal matrix are its diagonal elements, that multiplying a matrix on the left by an orthogonal matrix, Q, and on the right by Q.T (the transpose of Q), preserves the eigenvalues of the “middle” matrix. In other words, if Q is orthogonal, then Q * A * Q.T has the same eigenvalues as A:
>>> from numpy import linalg as LA
>>> x = np.random.random()
>>> Q = np.array([[np.cos(x), -np.sin(x)], [np.sin(x), np.cos(x)]])
>>> LA.norm(Q[0, :]), LA.norm(Q[1, :]), np.dot(Q[0, :],Q[1, :])
(1.0, 1.0, 0.0)
Now multiply a diagonal matrix by Q on one side and by Q.T on the other:
>>> D = np.diag((-1,1))
>>> LA.eigvals(D)
array([-1., 1.])
>>> A = np.dot(Q, D)
>>> A = np.dot(A, Q.T)
>>> LA.eigvals(A)
array([ 1., -1.])