[SciPy-User] Solving an eigenvalue problem

Lutz Maibaum lutz.maibaum at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 11:12:25 EDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Vincent De Groof
<vincentdegroof at gmail.com> wrote:
> However I don't need all the eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Is there an
> existing scipy function where I can define the number of eigenvectors I
> want? So the output would become e.g. the 250 largest eigenvalues and its
> corresponding eigenvectors?

You could try scipy.sparse.linalg.eigen_symmetric (or the
non-symmetric counterpart).

Hope this helps,

  Lutz



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