@article {IOPORT.06049689, author = {Chang, Xiao-Wen and Li, Ren-Cang}, title = {Multiplicative perturbation analysis for QR factorizations.}, year = {2011}, journal = {Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, issn = {2155-3289}, pages = {301-316}, publisher = {American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Springfield, MO}, doi = {10.3934/naco.2011.1.301}, abstract = {The QR-factorization of an $m$ by $n$ matrix $A$ is the following: $A = QR$, where $Q$ has orthogonal columns and $R$ is upper triangular with positive diagonal entries. This factorization is uniquely defined if $m \ge n$ and $A$ has full column rank. The question studied here is what happens to the QR factors if A is multiplicatively perturbed. The main results are given here in Chapter 3. If the perturbation is multiplication from the left by an $m$-by-$m$ matrix $D_L$ then the relative changes in the factors Q and R are bounded by a small constant multiple of the Frobenius norm of $I-D_L$. If the perturbation is a multiplication from the right then the factors of the first order bounds contain the condition numbers of the scaled R-factor. Several improved versions of these results are given which are better if the perturbations are not so near to the identity. Two sets of numerical examples are shown.}, reviewer = {Ludwig Elsner (Bielefeld)}, identifier = {06049689}, }