SGELS(3)              LAPACK driver routine (version 3.1)             SGELS(3)



NAME
       SGELS - overdetermined or underdetermined real linear systems involving
       an M-by-N matrix A, or its transpose, using a QR or LQ factorization of
       A

SYNOPSIS
       SUBROUTINE SGELS( TRANS,  M, N, NRHS, A, LDA, B, LDB, WORK, LWORK, INFO
                         )

           CHARACTER     TRANS

           INTEGER       INFO, LDA, LDB, LWORK, M, N, NRHS

           REAL          A( LDA, * ), B( LDB, * ), WORK( * )

PURPOSE
       SGELS solves overdetermined  or  underdetermined  real  linear  systems
       involving  an  M-by-N matrix A, or its transpose, using a QR or LQ fac-
       torization of A.  It is assumed that A has full rank.

       The following options are provided:

       1. If TRANS = 'N' and m >= n:  find the least squares solution of
          an overdetermined system, i.e., solve the least squares problem
                       minimize || B - A*X ||.

       2. If TRANS = 'N' and m < n:  find the minimum norm solution of
          an underdetermined system A * X = B.

       3. If TRANS = 'T' and m >= n:  find the minimum norm solution of
          an undetermined system A**T * X = B.

       4. If TRANS = 'T' and m < n:  find the least squares solution of
          an overdetermined system, i.e., solve the least squares problem
                       minimize || B - A**T * X ||.

       Several right hand side vectors b and solution vectors x can be handled
       in a single call; they are stored as the columns of the M-by-NRHS right
       hand side matrix B and the N-by-NRHS solution matrix X.


ARGUMENTS
       TRANS   (input) CHARACTER*1
               = 'N': the linear system involves A;
               = 'T': the linear system involves A**T.

       M       (input) INTEGER
               The number of rows of the matrix A.  M >= 0.

       N       (input) INTEGER
               The number of columns of the matrix A.  N >= 0.

       NRHS    (input) INTEGER
               The number of right hand sides, i.e., the number of columns  of
               the matrices B and X. NRHS >=0.

       A       (input/output) REAL array, dimension (LDA,N)
               On  entry, the M-by-N matrix A.  On exit, if M >= N, A is over-
               written by details of its QR factorization as returned by  SGE-
               QRF;  if  M <  N, A is overwritten by details of its LQ factor-
               ization as returned by SGELQF.

       LDA     (input) INTEGER
               The leading dimension of the array A.  LDA >= max(1,M).

       B       (input/output) REAL array, dimension (LDB,NRHS)
               On entry, the matrix B  of  right  hand  side  vectors,  stored
               columnwise;  B  is  M-by-NRHS  if  TRANS = 'N', or N-by-NRHS if
               TRANS = 'T'.  On exit, if INFO = 0, B  is  overwritten  by  the
               solution vectors, stored columnwise: if TRANS = 'N' and m >= n,
               rows 1 to n of B contain the least  squares  solution  vectors;
               the  residual sum of squares for the solution in each column is
               given by the sum of squares of elements N+1 to M in  that  col-
               umn;  if  TRANS  =  'N' and m < n, rows 1 to N of B contain the
               minimum norm solution vectors; if TRANS = 'T' and m >= n,  rows
               1 to M of B contain the minimum norm solution vectors; if TRANS
               = 'T' and m < n, rows 1 to M of B  contain  the  least  squares
               solution  vectors; the residual sum of squares for the solution
               in each column is given by the sum of squares of  elements  M+1
               to N in that column.

       LDB     (input) INTEGER
               The leading dimension of the array B. LDB >= MAX(1,M,N).

       WORK    (workspace/output) REAL array, dimension (MAX(1,LWORK))
               On exit, if INFO = 0, WORK(1) returns the optimal LWORK.

       LWORK   (input) INTEGER
               The  dimension  of  the array WORK.  LWORK >= max( 1, MN + max(
               MN, NRHS ) ).  For optimal performance, LWORK >= max( 1,  MN  +
               max(  MN, NRHS )*NB ).  where MN = min(M,N) and NB is the opti-
               mum block size.

               If LWORK = -1, then a workspace query is assumed;  the  routine
               only  calculates  the  optimal  size of the WORK array, returns
               this value as the first entry of the WORK array, and  no  error
               message related to LWORK is issued by XERBLA.

       INFO    (output) INTEGER
               = 0:  successful exit
               < 0:  if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value
               > 0:  if INFO =  i, the i-th diagonal element of the triangular
               factor of A is zero, so that A does not  have  full  rank;  the
               least squares solution could not be computed.



 LAPACK driver routine (version 3.N1o)vember 2006                        SGELS(3)