[petsc-dev] various dot products messed up for complex numbers?

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Apr 15 12:45:09 CDT 2012


On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:42, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> uses the complex conjugate of the FIRST argument.
>
> So it looks like everything is major broken for the complex case.
>

Is this more than a documentation error in PETSc? I.e. is VecDot() _used_
in such a way that the second argument is actually conjugate, or does it
use the standard convention that the first is conjugate?
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