Date Available
12-14-2011
Year of Publication
2007
Document Type
Dissertation
College
Arts and Sciences
Department
Mathematics
First Advisor
Ren-Cang Li
Second Advisor
Qiang Ye
Abstract
The Generalized Minimal Residual method (GMRES) is often used to solve a nonsymmetric linear system Ax = b. But its convergence analysis is a rather difficult task in general. A commonly used approach is to diagonalize A = XΛX-1 and then separate the study of GMRES convergence behavior into optimizing the condition number of X and a polynomial minimization problem over As spectrum. This artificial separation could greatly overestimate GMRES residuals and likely yields error bounds that are too far from the actual ones. On the other hand, considering the effects of both As spectrum and the conditioning of X at the same time poses a difficult challenge, perhaps impossible to deal with in general but only possible for certain particular linear systems. This thesis will do so for a (nonsymmetric) tridiagonal Toeplitz system. Sharp error bounds on and sometimes exact expressions for residuals are obtained. These expressions and/or bounds are in terms of the three parameters that define A and Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind or the second kind.
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Wei, "GMRES ON A TRIDIAGONAL TOEPLITZ LINEAR SYSTEM" (2007). University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations. 549.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/549
