The power method is an iterative method that can be used to find dominant eigen vector in a matrix. Computing Anq for larger and larger values of n, where q is a vector. Eventually the dominant (if there is any) eigen vector will "win".
Shift implementations find the eigen value of the matrix B=A-pI instead. This matrix has the same eigen vectors, but can converge much faster if p is chosen wisely.
See section 5.3 in "Fundamentals of Matrix Computations" Second Edition, David S. Watkins.
WARNING: These functions have well known conditions where they will not converge or converge very slowly and are only used in special situations in practice. I have also seen it converge to none dominant eigen vectors.
@author Peter Abeles
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