Componentwise error analysis for the block LU factorization of totally nonnegative matrices

For the first time, perturbation bounds including componentwise perturbation bounds for the block LU factorization have been provided by Dopico and Molera (2005) [5]. In this paper, componentwise error analysis is presented for computing the block LU factorization of nonsingular totally nonnegative matrices. We present a componentwise bound on the equivalent perturbation for the computed block LU factorization. Consequently, combining with the componentwise perturbation results we derive componentwise forward error bounds for the computed block factors. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.