expm

expm — square matrix exponential

Calling sequence

expm(X)  

Parameters

X : square matrix with real or complex entries.

Description

X is a square matrix expm(X) is the matrix

expm(X) = I + X + X^2 /2 + ...

The computation is performed by first block-diagonalizing X and then applying a Pade approximation on each block.

Examples



X=[1 2;3 4]
expm(X)
logm(expm(X))    
 
  

See also

logm, bdiag, coff, log, exp