On choice of preconditioner for minimum residual methods for nonsymmetric matrices

Existing convergence bounds for Krylov subspace methods such as GMRES for nonsymmetric linear systems give little mathematical guidance for the choice of preconditioner. Here, we establish a desirable mathematical property of a preconditioner which indicates when convergence of a minimum residual me...

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Main Authors: Pestana, J, Wathen, A
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Published: SIMAX 2011
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description Existing convergence bounds for Krylov subspace methods such as GMRES for nonsymmetric linear systems give little mathematical guidance for the choice of preconditioner. Here, we establish a desirable mathematical property of a preconditioner which indicates when convergence of a minimum residual method will essentially depend only on the eigenvalues of the preconditioned system, as is true in the symmetric case. Our theory covers the generic case of nonsymmetric coefficient matrices which are diagonalisable over C; it does not cover matrices with nontrivial Jordan form.
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spelling oxford-uuid:3b0185c0-63ba-47c7-9aad-5b03d19d54cc2022-03-26T14:05:02ZOn choice of preconditioner for minimum residual methods for nonsymmetric matricesReporthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_93fcuuid:3b0185c0-63ba-47c7-9aad-5b03d19d54ccMathematical Institute - ePrintsSIMAX2011Pestana, JWathen, AExisting convergence bounds for Krylov subspace methods such as GMRES for nonsymmetric linear systems give little mathematical guidance for the choice of preconditioner. Here, we establish a desirable mathematical property of a preconditioner which indicates when convergence of a minimum residual method will essentially depend only on the eigenvalues of the preconditioned system, as is true in the symmetric case. Our theory covers the generic case of nonsymmetric coefficient matrices which are diagonalisable over C; it does not cover matrices with nontrivial Jordan form.
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On choice of preconditioner for minimum residual methods for nonsymmetric matrices
title On choice of preconditioner for minimum residual methods for nonsymmetric matrices
title_full On choice of preconditioner for minimum residual methods for nonsymmetric matrices
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title_full_unstemmed On choice of preconditioner for minimum residual methods for nonsymmetric matrices
title_short On choice of preconditioner for minimum residual methods for nonsymmetric matrices
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