Re: [Libmesh-devel] "Indefinite" dot product

[Roy S. <roy...@ic...>]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, David Knezevic wrote:

> So I'd like to add an indefinite dot-product to libMesh. Any thoughts on
> the API? A separate "indefinite_dot" method in NumericVector? Or a
> boolean argument (with default value to maintain API backwards
> compatibility) in the existing dot method?

I'd prefer a separate method.

> Also, on a related note, I posted to libmesh-users about
> add_vector_tranpose and how I'd like it to do a conjugate-tranpose in
> the complex-valued case (perhaps toggled with an optional boolean
> argument as above?).

I'd keep the existing behavior the way it is, but add a new method
"add_vector_conjugate" or "add_vector_adjoint", or some name that
clearly denotes a conjugate transpose, with the new behavior.

Neither of these are extremely strong preferences.
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Roy