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The RealLinearOperator.java Java example source code

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package org.apache.commons.math3.linear;

import org.apache.commons.math3.exception.DimensionMismatchException;

/**
 * This class defines a linear operator operating on real ({@code double})
 * vector spaces. No direct access to the coefficients of the underlying matrix
 * is provided.
 *
 * The motivation for such an interface is well stated by
 * <a href="#BARR1994">Barrett et al. (1994):
 * <blockquote>
 *  We restrict ourselves to iterative methods, which work by repeatedly
 *  improving an approximate solution until it is accurate enough. These
 *  methods access the coefficient matrix A of the linear system only via the
 *  matrix-vector product y = A · x
 *  (and perhaps z = A<sup>T · x). Thus the user need only
 *  supply a subroutine for computing y (and perhaps z) given x, which permits
 *  full exploitation of the sparsity or other special structure of A.
 * </blockquote>
 * <br/>
 *
 * <dl>
 *  <dt>Barret et al. (1994)
 *  <dd>
 *   R. Barrett, M. Berry, T. F. Chan, J. Demmel, J. M. Donato, J. Dongarra,
 *   V. Eijkhout, R. Pozo, C. Romine and H. Van der Vorst,
 *   <em>Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for
 *   Iterative Methods</em>, SIAM
 *  </dd>
 * </dl>
 *
 * @since 3.0
 */
public abstract class RealLinearOperator {
    /**
     * Returns the dimension of the codomain of this operator.
     *
     * @return the number of rows of the underlying matrix
     */
    public abstract int getRowDimension();

    /**
     * Returns the dimension of the domain of this operator.
     *
     * @return the number of columns of the underlying matrix
     */
    public abstract int getColumnDimension();

    /**
     * Returns the result of multiplying {@code this} by the vector {@code x}.
     *
     * @param x the vector to operate on
     * @return the product of {@code this} instance with {@code x}
     * @throws DimensionMismatchException if the column dimension does not match
     * the size of {@code x}
     */
    public abstract RealVector operate(final RealVector x)
        throws DimensionMismatchException;

    /**
     * Returns the result of multiplying the transpose of {@code this} operator
     * by the vector {@code x} (optional operation). The default implementation
     * throws an {@link UnsupportedOperationException}. Users overriding this
     * method must also override {@link #isTransposable()}.
     *
     * @param x the vector to operate on
     * @return the product of the transpose of {@code this} instance with
     * {@code x}
     * @throws org.apache.commons.math3.exception.DimensionMismatchException
     * if the row dimension does not match the size of {@code x}
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if this operation is not supported
     * by {@code this} operator
     */
    public RealVector operateTranspose(final RealVector x)
        throws DimensionMismatchException, UnsupportedOperationException {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    /**
     * Returns {@code true} if this operator supports
     * {@link #operateTranspose(RealVector)}. If {@code true} is returned,
     * {@link #operateTranspose(RealVector)} should not throw
     * {@code UnsupportedOperationException}. The default implementation returns
     * {@code false}.
     *
     * @return {@code false}
     */
    public boolean isTransposable() {
        return false;
    }
}