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On Krylov subspace methods for skew-symmetric and shifted skew-symmetric linear systems

Numerical Analysis 2023-08-01 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Krylov subspace methods for solving linear systems of equations involving skew-symmetric matrices have gained recent attention. Numerical equivalences among Krylov subspace methods for nonsingular skew-symmetric linear systems have been given in Greif et al. [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 37 (2016), pp. 1071--1087]. In this work, we extend the results of Greif et al. to singular skew-symmetric linear systems. In addition, we systematically study three Krylov subspace methods (called S3^3CG, S3^3MR, and S3^3LQ) for solving shifted skew-symmetric linear systems. They all are based on Lanczos triangularization for skew-symmetric matrices, and correspond to CG, MINRES, and SYMMLQ for solving symmetric linear systems, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that studies S3^3LQ. We give some new theoretical results on S3^3CG, S3^3MR, and S3^3LQ. We also provide the relationship among the three methods and those based on Golub--Kahan bidiagonalization and Saunders--Simon--Yip tridiagonalization. Numerical examples are given to illustrate our theoretical findings.

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@article{arxiv.2307.16460,
  title  = {On Krylov subspace methods for skew-symmetric and shifted skew-symmetric linear systems},
  author = {Kui Du and Jia-Jun Fan and Xiao-Hui Sun and Fang Wang and Ya-Lan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16460},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, 3 figures