Eigenvectors of a nonsymmetric matrix.
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Hello, I'm trying to find the dominant Eigenvectors of a matrix P. However, P could be non symmetric thus their are two "categories" of eigenvectors (left and right). Here I'm looking for the left dominant eigenvector of P (or the right dominant eigenvector of P').
What I don't know is, have I to use eig, or eigs function ? How to differentiate left eigenvectors from right eigenvectors ?
Thank you for your answers.
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Wayne King
on 28 Apr 2012
Below W are the left eigenvectors, use the one associate with the largest eigenvalue.
If A is your matrix
[W,D] = eig(A.');
W = conj(W)
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Wayne King
on 28 Apr 2012
That's because we didn't conjugate the entries of A, we used A.'
You can omit that step if you do [W,D] = eig(A');
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