Using semiseparable matrices to compute the SVD of a general matrix product/quotient

In this manuscript we reduce the computation of the singular values of a gen-eral product/quotient of matrices to the computation of the singular values of an upper triangular semiseparable matrix. Compared to the reduction into a bidi-agonal matrix the reduction into semiseparable form exhibits a nested subspace iteration. Hence, when there are large gaps between the singular values, these gaps manifest themselves already during the reduction algorithm in contrast to the bidiagonal case.