On Contraction and Semi-Contraction Factors of GSOR Method for Augmented Linear Systems

On Contraction and Semi-Contraction Factors of GSOR Method for Augmented Linear Systems

Year:    2010

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 28 (2010), Iss. 6 : pp. 901–912

Abstract

The generalized successive overrelaxation (GSOR) method was presented and studied by Bai, Parlett and Wang [Numer. Math. 102(2005), pp.1-38] for solving the augmented system of linear equations, and the optimal iteration parameters and the corresponding optimal convergence factor were exactly obtained. In this paper, we further estimate the contraction and the semi-contraction factors of the GSOR method. The motivation of the study is that the convergence speed of an iteration method is actually decided by the contraction factor but not by the spectral radius in finite-step iteration computations. For the nonsingular augmented linear system, under some restrictions we obtain the contraction domain of the parameters involved, which guarantees that the contraction factor of the GSOR method is less than one. For the singular but consistent augmented linear system, we also obtain the semi-contraction domain of the parameters in a similar fashion. Finally, we use two numerical examples to verify the theoretical results and the effectiveness of the GSOR method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1004-m3180

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 28 (2010), Iss. 6 : pp. 901–912

Published online:    2010-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    12

Keywords:    Contraction and semi-contraction factors Augmented linear system GSOR method Convergence.