Skip to main content
`Ctrl`+`K`
scipy.linalg.

# bandwidth

scipy.linalg.bandwidth(a)

  Return the lower and upper bandwidth of a numeric array.

  Parameters:
    a(…, N, M) array_like

      Input array of at least 2 dimensions.

  Returns:
    lower np.int64 | nDArray[np.int64]

      Lower bandwidth. a scalar `np.int64` is assigned per 2D slice of the input array of last two dimensions. A value of 0 means the slice is upper triangular; `N - 1` means the lower part is full. If the input array is 2D then a scalar int64 is returned.

    upper np.int64 | nDArray[np.int64]

      Upper bandwidth. Same shape rules as lower. A value of 0 means the slice is lower triangular; `M - 1` means the upper part is full. If the input array is 2D then a scalar int64 is returned.

  Raises:
    TypeError

      If the dtype of the array is not supported, in particular, for NumPy float16, float128 and complex256 and other NumPy non-numeric types.

  Notes

  This helper function simply runs over the array looking for the nonzero entries whether there exists a banded structure in the array or not. Hence, the performance depends on the density of nonzero entries and also memory-layout. Fortran- or C- contiguous arrays are handled best and otherwise suffers from extra random memory access cost.

  The strategy is to look for only untested band elements in the upper and lower triangular parts separately; depending on the memory layout we scan row-wise or column-wise. Moreover, say we are scanning rows and in the 6th row, 4th entry is nonzero then, on the succeeding rows the horizontal search is done only up to that band entries since we know that band is occupied. Therefore, a completely dense matrix scan cost is in the order of n.

  Examples

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> from scipy.linalg import bandwidth
      >>> A = np.array([[3., 0., 0., 0., 0.],
      ...               [0., 4., 0., 0., 0.],
      ...               [0., 0., 5., 1., 0.],
      ...               [8., 0., 0., 6., 2.],
      ...               [0., 9., 0., 0., 7.]])
      >>> bandwidth(A)
      (3, 1)