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/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

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.
 *
 * <p>The motivation for such an interface is well stated by <a href="#BARR1994">Barrett et al.
 * (1994)</a>:
 *
 * <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 &middot; x (and perhaps z = A<sup>T</sup>
 * &middot; 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><a name="BARR1994">Barret et al. (1994)</a>
 *   <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
 * </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;
    }
}