FinTS (version 0.4-5)

findConjugates: Find complex conjugate pairs

Description

Find all complex conjugate pairs in a vector of complex numbers and return one number from each pair.

Usage

findConjugates(x, complex.eps=.Machine[["double.eps"]])

Arguments

x

a vector of complex numbers

complex.eps

a small positive number used to identify complex conjugates: x[i] and x[j] are considered conjugates if

(abs(x-Conj(x)) / max(abs(x[i], x[j]))) < complex.eps)

and

(abs(x[i]-x[j]) > complex.eps.

The latter condition excludes repeated roots.

Value

a complex vector with one representative of each complex pair found

Details

1. Compute normalization m2 = outer(abs(x), abs(x), max)

2. Compute complex differences c2 = abs(outer(x, Conj(x), "-"))/m2

3. If any abs(c2) < complex.eps, make sure the numbers are not duplicate reals via (d2 = abs(outer(x, x, "-"))) > complex.eps

See Also

plotArmaTrueacf

Examples

# none
findConjugates(NULL)
findConjugates(numeric(0))
findConjugates(0:4)
findConjugates(rep(0:1,each=3))

# some
findConjugates(c(1+1i, 0, 1-1i, 2-2i, 3, 2+2i, NA))

# Testing with polyroot and solve(polynomial(...))
set.seed(1234)
if(require(polynom)){
  p <- polynomial(sample(1:10, size=45, rep=TRUE)) # degree 44
  z <- solve(p)
  findConjugates(z, complex.eps=.Machine$double.eps)
# this identifies all 21 conjugate pairs, R 2.6.0 for Windows

z1 <- polyroot(p)
findConjugates(z1, complex.eps=.Machine$double.eps)
# this only identifies only 3 conjugate pairs, R 2.6.0 for Windows
}