The generalized (GRQ) factorization of an -by- matrix and a -by- matrix is given by the pair of factorizations
where and are respectively -by- and -by- orthogonal matrices (or unitary matrices if and are complex). has the form
or
where or is upper triangular. has the form
or
where is upper triangular.
Note that if is square and nonsingular, the GRQ factorization of and implicitly gives the factorization of the matrix :
without explicitly computing the matrix inverse or the product .
The routine xGGRQF computes the GRQ factorization by first computing the factorization of and then the factorization of . The orthogonal (or unitary) matrices and can either be formed explicitly or just used to multiply another given matrix in the same way as the orthogonal (or unitary) matrix in the factorization (see section 2.3.2).
The GRQ factorization can be used to solve the linear equality-constrained least squares problem (LSE) (see (2.2) and [page 567]GVL2). We use the GRQ factorization of and (note that and have swapped roles), written as
We write the linear equality constraints as:
which we partition as:
Therefore is the solution of the upper triangular system
Furthermore,
We partition this expression as:
where , which can be computed by xORMQR (or xUNMQR).
To solve the LSE problem, we set
which gives as the solution of the upper triangular system
Finally, the desired solution is given by
which can be computed by xORMRQ (or xUNMRQ).