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Mathematics of Computation

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1960 (published as Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation 1943-1959), Mathematics of Computation is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in computational mathematics.

ISSN 1088-6842 (online) ISSN 0025-5718 (print)

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An incomplete factorization technique for positive definite linear systems
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by T. A. Manteuffel PDF
Math. Comp. 34 (1980), 473-497 Request permission

Abstract:

This paper describes a technique for solving the large sparse symmetric linear systems that arise from the application of finite element methods. The technique combines an incomplete factorization method called the shifted incomplete Cholesky factorization with the method of generalized conjugate gradients. The shifted incomplete Cholesky factorization produces a splitting of the matrix A that is dependent upon a parameter $\alpha$. It is shown that if A is positive definite, then there is some $\alpha$ for which this splitting is possible and that this splitting is at least as good as the Jacobi splitting. The method is shown to be more efficient on a set of test problems than either direct methods or explicit iteration schemes.
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  • © Copyright 1980 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 34 (1980), 473-497
  • MSC: Primary 65F10; Secondary 15A06
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1980-0559197-0
  • MathSciNet review: 559197