LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS, cilt.315, sa.1-3, ss.113-123, 2000 (SCI-Expanded)
The LU factorization of the Vandermonde matrix is obtained, using complete symmetric functions, and the lower and upper triangular matrices are, in turn, factorized into 1-banded matrices, thus expressing the Vandermonde matrix as a product of 1-banded matrices. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.