# [Numpy-discussion] Eigenvectors in Matlab vs. Numpy

Saket saketn@gmail....
Sun Jun 29 21:14:56 CDT 2008

Also, I'm getting different numbers when I do the above using eig(A)
and eigh(A). I thought eigh would be faster, but would still give the
same results...

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Saket <saketn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm... so the relationship Ax = Lx should hold for every eigenvalue
> and corresponding eigenvector of A, right? But, consider the first
> eigenvalue,eigenvector pair:
>
>    for i,eval in enumerate(d):
>        print abs(numpy.dot(A,v[i]) - numpy.dot(eval,v[i])).max()
>        return
>
> Outputs: 1.928
>
> I thought maybe the ith eigenvector corresponds to a different (not
> the ith) eigenvalue, but there doesn't seem to be any eigenvalue which
> corresponds to the ith eigenvector such that the relationship holds...
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Saket
>
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> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Saket <saketn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having this weird problem when computing eigenvalues/vectors with
>>> Numpy. I have the following symmetric matrix, B:
>>>
>>>   -0.3462    0.6538    0.5385   -0.4615    0.6538   -0.3462   -0.3462
>>> -0.3462
>>>    0.6538   -0.3462    0.5385   -0.4615    0.6538   -0.3462   -0.3462
>>> -0.3462
>>>    0.5385    0.5385   -0.6154    0.3846    0.5385   -0.4615   -0.4615
>>> -0.4615
>>>   -0.4615   -0.4615    0.3846   -0.6154   -0.4615    0.5385    0.5385
>>>  0.5385
>>>    0.6538    0.6538    0.5385   -0.4615   -0.3462   -0.3462   -0.3462
>>> -0.3462
>>>   -0.3462   -0.3462   -0.4615    0.5385   -0.3462   -0.3462    0.6538
>>>  0.6538
>>>   -0.3462   -0.3462   -0.4615    0.5385   -0.3462    0.6538   -0.3462
>>>  0.6538
>>>   -0.3462   -0.3462   -0.4615    0.5385   -0.3462    0.6538    0.6538
>>> -0.3462
>>>
>>> I compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of B using
>>> numpy.linalg.eig(B). I get the following eigenvalues:
>>>
>>> [  2.79128785e+00  -1.79128785e+00   1.64060486e-16  -3.07692308e-01
>>>  -1.00000000e+00  -1.00000000e+00  -1.00000000e+00  -1.00000000e+00]
>>>
>>> I do the same thing in Matlab and get the SAME eigenvalues. However,
>>> my eigenVECTORS in Matlab versus numpy are different. It makes no
>>> sense to me. In general, the following relationship should hold: Bx =
>>> Lx, where B is my matrix, x is an eigenvector, and L is the
>>> corresponding eigenvalue. For the eigenvectors that Matlab returns, I
>>> have confirmed that the relationship does hold. But for the Numpy
>>> eigenvectors, it doesn't!
>>>
>>> Any idea why this might be happening? I did some computations myself
>>> and it looks like the Matlab output is correct. Just seems like the
>>> eigenvectors that Numpy is returning are wrong...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> Also note that the -1 eigenvalue has multiplicity 4. This means that any set
>> of orthogonal vectors spanning the same eigenspace will do for eigenvectors,
>> i.e., they aren't unique and roundoff error is likely to have a large effect
>> on what you end up with.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
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