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Effective construction of eigenvectors for a class of singular sparse matrices

Han, Xiaoying; Najm, H.N.

Fundamental results and an efficient algorithm for constructing eigenvectors corresponding to non-zero eigenvalues of matrices with zero rows and/or columns are developed. The formulation is based on the relation between eigenvectors of such matrices and the eigenvectors of their submatrices after removing all zero rows and columns. While being easily implemented, the algorithm decreases the computation time needed for numerical eigenanalysis, and resolves potential numerical eigensolver instabilities.