A modified harmonic block Arnoldi algorithm with adaptive shifts for large interior eigen\-problems (Q2372934)

This paper is motivated by the observation that harmonic Ritz vectors may converge erratically or not at all. The idea is to improve the performance of the harmonic block Arnoldi algorithm by replacing those vectors by modified ones. This has been done before by the author [Appl. Math. Comput. 153, No. 3, 611--643 (2004; Zbl 1054.65035)] and others, but new seems to be that the modified vectors satisfy improved optimality conditions. The present algorithms are compared numerically with the original one, and the efficiency of adaptive shifts is discussed in terms of numerical examples arising from differential equations in chemistry and elsewhere.