Paper 2, Section II, A
Part II, 2011
Let be a real matrix with linearly independent eigenvectors. The eigenvalues of can be calculated from the sequence , which is generated by the power method
where is a real nonzero vector.
(i) Describe the asymptotic properties of the sequence in the case that the eigenvalues of satisfy , and the eigenvectors are of unit length.
(ii) Present the implementation details for the power method for the setting in (i) and define the Rayleigh quotient.
(iii) Let be the matrix
where is real and nonzero. Find an explicit expression for
Let the sequence be generated by the power method as above. Deduce from your expression for that the first and second components of tend to zero as . Further show that this implies as .