A new method is described for computing the singular value decomposition (SVD). It begins by computing the polar decomposition and then computes the spectral decomposition of the Hermitian polar factor. The method is particularly attractive for shared memory parallel computers with a relatively small number of processors, because the polar decomposition can be computed efficiently on such machi...

For 0 < λ < 1, the λ-Aluthge sequence {∆λ (X)}m∈N converges if the nonzero eigenvalues of X ∈ Cn×n have distinct moduli, where ∆λ(X) := P UP 1−λ if X = UP is a polar decomposition of X.

A new method is described for computing the singular value decomposition (SVD). It begins by computing the polar decomposition and then computes the spectral decomposition of the Hermitian polar factor. The method is particularly attractive for shared memory parallel computers with a relatively small number of processors, because the polar decomposition can be computed efficiently on such machi...

The purpose of this paper is to present a largely self-contained proof of the singular value decomposition (SVD), and to explore its application to the low rank approximation problem. We begin by proving background concepts used throughout the paper. We then develop the SVD by way of the polar decomposition. Finally, we show that the SVD can be used to achieve the best low rank approximation of...