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In this work, we propose a parallel-in-time solver for linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The approach is based on an efficient multilevel solver of the Schur complement related to a multilevel time partition. For linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Santiago Badia , Marc Olm

The objective of this study is to present a novel, efficient, and fast direct method for solving linear systems of equations whose coefficient matrix is a tridiagonal Quasi-Toeplitz matrix. Such matrices are frequently encountered in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Shahin Hasanbeigi

This paper presents an efficient parallel direct algorithm with near-optimal complexity for the compact fourth and sixth-order approximation of the three-dimensional Helmholtz equations [1] with the problem coefficient depending on only one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Ronald Gonzales , Yury Gryazin , Yun Teck Lee

Hierarchical matrices provide a highly memory-efficient way of storing dense linear operators arising, for example, from boundary element methods, particularly when stored in the H^2 format. In such data-sparse representations, iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Sven Christophersen

We present a parallel hierarchical solver for general sparse linear systems on distributed-memory machines. For large-scale problems, this fully algebraic algorithm is faster and more memory-efficient than sparse direct solvers because it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Chao Chen , Hadi Pouransari , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Erik G. Boman , Eric Darve

The objective of this work is to present a novel approach for the solution of Pentadiagonal Toeplitz systems of equations that is both faster and more effective than existing classical direct methods. The distinctive structure of…

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A direct solver is introduced for solving overdetermined linear systems involving nonuniform discrete Fourier transform matrices. Such matrices can be transformed into a Cauchy-like form that has hierarchical low rank structure. The rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Heather Wilber , Ethan N. Epperly , Alex H. Barnett

A numerical method for solving elliptic PDEs with variable coefficients on two-dimensional domains is presented. The method is based on high-order composite spectral approximations and is designed for problems with smooth solutions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-11 A. Gillman , P. G. Martinsson

A numerical method for variable coefficient elliptic problems on two dimensional domains is described. The method is based on high-order spectral approximations and is designed for problems with smooth solutions. The resulting system of…

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When solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using finite difference or finite element methods, efficient solvers are required for handling large sparse linear systems. In this paper, a recursive sparse LU decomposition for matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Zhu Xuanru , Lai Jun

The paper describes a sparse direct solver for the linear systems that arise from the discretization of an elliptic PDE on a two dimensional domain. The scheme decomposes the domain into thin subdomains, or ``slabs'' and uses a two-level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Anna Yesypenko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Efficient solutions of large-scale, ill-conditioned and indefinite algebraic equations are ubiquitously needed in numerous computational fields, including multiphysics simulations, machine learning, and data science. Because of their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xiaoye Sherry Li , Yang Liu

We describe a fast, direct solver for elliptic partial differential equations on a two-dimensional hierarchy of adaptively refined, Cartesian meshes. Our solver, inspired by the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Damyn Chipman , Donna Calhoun , Carsten Burstedde

We consider the numerical solution of large scale time-harmonic Maxwell equations. To this day, this problem remains difficult, in particular because the equations are neither Hermitian nor semi-definite. Our approach is to compare…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Elise Fressart , Sébastien Dubois , Loïc Gouarin , Marc Massot , Michel Nowak , Nicole Spillane

Structured dense matrices result from boundary integral problems in electrostatics and geostatistics, and also Schur complements in sparse preconditioners such as multi-frontal methods. Exploiting the structure of such matrices can reduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Sameer Deshmukh , Qinxiang Ma , Rio Yokota , George Bosilca

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated framework for solving block tridiagonal linear systems that arise naturally in numerous real-time applications across engineering and scientific computing. Through a multi-stage permutation strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Roland Schwan , Daniel Kuhn , Colin N. Jones

In this paper we accomplish the development of the fast rank-adaptive solver for tensor-structured symmetric positive definite linear systems in higher dimensions. In [arXiv:1301.6068] this problem is approached by alternating minimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Sergey V. Dolgov , Dmitry V. Savostyanov

Symmetric linear solves are fundamental to a wide range of scientific and engineering applications, from climate modeling and structural analysis to machine learning and optimization. These workloads often rely on Cholesky (POTRF)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Vicki Carrica , Rabab Alomairy , Evelyne Ringoot , Alan Edelman

Cyclic reduction is a method for the solution of (block-)tridiagonal linear systems. In this note we review the method tailored to hermitian positive definite banded linear systems. The reviewed method has the following advantages: It is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Martin Neuenhofen

In this article, we introduce a fast and memory efficient solver for sparse matrices arising from the finite element discretization of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). We use a fast direct (but approximate) multifrontal…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-04-23 AmirHossein Aminfar , Eric Darve