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Title: Spectral Schur complement techniques for symmetric eigenvalue problems

Journal Article · · Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
OSTI ID:1438784
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  1. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). Computer Science & Engineering

This paper presents a domain decomposition-type method for solving real symmetric (Hermitian) eigenvalue problems in which we seek all eigenpairs in an interval [α; β] or a few eigenpairs next to a given real shift. Here, a Newton-based scheme is described whereby the problem is converted to one that deals with the interface nodes of the computational domain. This approach relies on the fact that the inner solves related to each local subdomain are relatively inexpensive. This Newton scheme exploits spectral Schur complements, and these lead to so-called eigenbranches, which are rational functions whose roots are eigenvalues of the original matrix. Theoretical and practical aspects of domain decomposition techniques for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors are discussed. A parallel implementation is presented and its performance on distributed computing environments is illustrated by means of a few numerical examples.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344; SC0008877; NSF/DMS-1216366
OSTI ID:
1438784
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-691697
Journal Information:
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 45; ISSN 1068-9613
Publisher:
Kent State University - Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English