Spectral equivalence and proper clusters for matrices from the boundary element method (Q2701964)

The authors study preconditioners for Galerkin matrices \( A_{n}\in {\mathbb C}^{n\times n}\) from application of the boundary element methods to integral equations of the first kind. Since the spectral condition number of \(A_{n}\) may grow with \(n,\) the authors use as preconditioners some other matices \(C_{n}\in {\mathbb C}^{n\times n}\) that are easier to invert. The purpose is to make the condition number of \( C_{n}^{-1}A_{n}\) bounded or, if that cannot be achieved, at least to slow down its growth with \(n\) and to improve the behaviour of the eigenvalues.