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# Documentation

A good starting point for learning SLEPc is to read the Users Manual and then follow the Hands-on exercises. See also the video-tutorials below. Application programmers can readily begin to use SLEPc from a high level (starting from one of the examples) and then gradually learn more details according to their needs.

## SLEPc Users Manual

- An online version of the SLEPc Users Manual is available.

- See also the PDF version.

## Manual Pages

- The individual manual pages for all SLEPc functions are available by selecting the top bar menu item C/Fortran API.

- Similarly, we provide the full documentation of SLEPc’s Python interface (slepc4py API in the top bar menu).

- The SLEPc documentation often links to PETSc Manual Pages as well as PETSc Users Manual. The PETSc documentation can be found at the PETSc website.

## SLEPc Technical Reports (STR)

- STR-1: Orthogonalization Routines in SLEPc - [PDF]

- STR-2: Single Vector Iteration Methods in SLEPc - [PDF]

- STR-3: Subspace Iteration in SLEPc - [PDF]

- STR-4: Arnoldi Methods in SLEPc - [PDF]

- STR-5: Lanczos Methods in SLEPc - [PDF]

- STR-6: A Survey of Software for Sparse Eigenvalue Problems - [PDF]

- STR-7: Krylov-Schur Methods in SLEPc - [PDF]

- STR-8: Restarted Lanczos Bidiagonalization for the SVD in SLEPc - [PDF]

- STR-9: Practical Implementation of Harmonic Krylov-Schur - [PDF]

- STR-10: Davidson Type Subspace Expansions for the Linear Eigenvalue Problem - [PDF]

- STR-11: Contour Integral Spectrum Slicing Method in SLEPc - [PDF]

## Video-Tutorials

The following video-tutorials have a 10 minute duration each, and include demonstration of actual code executions.

1. SLEPc: What is it for?

2. SLEPc: Installation

3. SLEPc: Compiling and running programs

4. SLEPc: Standard eigenvalue problem

5. SLEPc: Viewing the solution

6. SLEPc: Spectral transformation

7. SLEPc: How to compute different parts of the spectrum

8. SLEPc: Matrix-free eigenproblems

## Additional Documentation

- SLEPc Users Manual
- Hands-on exercises
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Presentations
- License