Hierarchical interpolative factorization for elliptic operators: integral equations

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Abstract: This paper introduces the hierarchical interpolative factorization for integral equations (HIF-IE) associated with elliptic problems in two and three dimensions. This factorization takes the form of an approximate generalized LU decomposition that permits the efficient application of the discretized operator and its inverse. HIF-IE is based on the recursive skeletonization algorithm but incorporates a novel combination of two key features: (1) a matrix factorization framework for sparsifying structured dense matrices and (2) a recursive dimensional reduction strategy to decrease the cost. Thus, higher-dimensional problems are effectively mapped to one dimension, and we conjecture that constructing, applying, and inverting the factorization all have linear or quasilinear complexity. Numerical experiments support this claim and further demonstrate the performance of our algorithm as a generalized fast multipole method, direct solver, and preconditioner. HIF-IE is compatible with geometric adaptivity and can handle both boundary and volume problems. MATLAB codes are freely available.


The authors study the methods to approximate solving the integral equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE a(x) u(x)+ b(x)\int_{\Omega}K(\|x-y\|u(y)d\Omega (y)=f(x),\qquad x\in \Omega \subset \mathbb R^{d},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE derived from the boundary value problem NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \nabla ( a(x) \nabla u(x)) = f(x) \qquad x\in \Omega\subset \mathbb R^{d}, \,d= 2,3 NEWLINE\]NEWLINE Discretization of the integral equation, using the different approximate schemes (collocation, Galerkin method and other), leads to a system of linear equations NEWLINE\[NEWLINE Ax = f, \qquad A \in C^{N\times N}.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The main idea of this paper is to construct algorithms which permit to obtain the matrix \(A\) in factorized form \(A= LV\) or \(A=LDV\). Also an analysis of the complexity of the constructed algorithms and the numerical results for three concrete examples are given.



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