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For a 4th order 3-dimensional symmetric tensor with its some entries $1$ or $-1$, we show the analytic sufficient and necessary conditions of its positive definiteness. By applying these conclusions, several strict inequalities is bulit for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Yisheng Song

This article considers the iterative solution of a finite element discretisation of the magma dynamics equations. In simplified form, the magma dynamics equations share some features of the Stokes equations. We therefore formulate, analyse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Sander Rhebergen , Garth N. Wells , Richard F. Katz , Andrew J. Wathen

We consider the simulation of electromagnetic scattering by single and multiple isotropic homogeneous dielectric particles using boundary integral equations. Galerkin discretizations of the classical Poggio-Miller-Chang-Harrington-Wu-Tsai…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Antigoni Kleanthous , Timo Betcke , David P. Hewett , Matthew W. Scroggs , Anthony J. Baran

We use the practical framework for abstract perturbed saddle point problems recently introduced by Hong et al. to analyze the mixed formulation of the Hodge Laplace problem. We compose two parameter-dependent norms in which the uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Wietse M. Boon , Johannes Kraus , Tomáš Luber , Maria Lymbery

High-index saddle dynamics (HiSD) is an effective approach for computing saddle points of a prescribed Morse index and constructing solution landscapes for complex nonlinear systems. However, for problems with ill-conditioned Hessians…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Bingzhang Huang , Hua Su , Lei Zhang , Jin Zhao

The Virtual Element Method (VEM) is a new family of numerical methods for the approximation of partial differential equations, where the geometry of the polytopal mesh elements can be very general. The aim of this article is to extend the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Tommaso Bevilacqua , Simone Scacchi

It was recently demonstrated that the boundary element method based on the Burton-Miller formulation (BM-BEM), widely used for solving exterior problems, can be adapted to solve transmission problems efficiently. This approach utilises…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Keigo Tomoyasu , Hiroshi Isakari

We consider a generic convex-concave saddle point problem with separable structure, a form that covers a wide-ranged machine learning applications. Under this problem structure, we follow the framework of primal-dual updates for saddle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

Topology optimization problems generally support multiple local minima, and real-world applications are typically three-dimensional. In previous work [I. P. A. Papadopoulos, P. E. Farrell, and T. M. Surowiec, Computing multiple solutions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Patrick E. Farrell

We propose a new class of multi-layer iterative schemes for solving sparse linear systems in saddle point structure. The new scheme consist of an iterative preconditioner that is based on the (approximate) nullspace method, combined with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Murat Manguoğlu , Volker Mehrmann

We present a stationary iteration method, namely Alternating Symmetric positive definite and Scaled symmetric positive semidefinite Splitting (ASSS), for solving the system of linear equations obtained by using finite element discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

This paper concerns robust numerical treatment of an elliptic PDE with high contrast coefficients, for which classical finite-element discretizations yield ill-conditioned linear systems. This paper introduces a procedure by which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Yuliya Gorb , Vasiliy Kramarenko , Yuri Kuznetsov

We present and analyze a class of nonsymmetric preconditioners within a normal (weighted least-squares) matrix form for use in GMRES to solve nonsymmetric matrix problems that typically arise in finite element discretizations. An example of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Andrew T. Barker , Panayot S. Vassilevski

Randomized methods are becoming increasingly popular in numerical linear algebra. However, few attempts have been made to use them in developing preconditioners. Our interest lies in solving large-scale sparse symmetric positive definite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Hussam Al Daas , Tyrone Rees , Jennifer Scott

We introduce iterative methods named TriCG and TriMR for solving symmetric quasi-definite systems based on the orthogonal tridiagonalization process proposed by Saunders, Simon and Yip in 1988. TriCG and TriMR are tantamount to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Alexis Montoison , Dominique Orban

Model predictive control (MPC) for linear dynamical systems requires solving an optimal control structured quadratic program (QP) at each sampling instant. This paper proposes a primal active-set strategy (PRESAS) for the efficient solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Rien Quirynen , Stefano Di Cairano

In this experimental work, we present a general framework based on the Bregman log determinant divergence for preconditioning Hermitian positive definite linear systems. We explore this divergence as a measure of discrepancy between a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Andreas A. Bock , Martin S. Andersen

We introduce a unified framework for computing approximately-optimal preconditioners for solving linear and non-linear systems of equations. We demonstrate that the condition number minimization problem, under structured transformations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 M. Levent Doğan , Alperen Ergür , Elias Tsigaridas

In the paper, we develop a composite version of Mirror Prox algorithm for solving convex-concave saddle point problems and monotone variational inequalities of special structure, allowing to cover saddle point/variational analogies of what…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Niao He , Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

The convergence behaviour of first-order methods can be severely slowed down when applied to high-dimensional non-convex functions due to the presence of saddle points. If, additionally, the saddles are surrounded by large plateaus, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Nick Tsipinakis , Panos Parpas