A note on the preconditioned Gauss--Seidel (GS) method for linear systems (Q557740)

This paper is concerned with preconditioning a diagonally dominant \(M\)-matrix \(A\) in order to decrease the spectral radius of the iteration matrix in the Gauss-Seidel method applied to \(A\). The considered preconditioner is composed of the identity matrix, the (scaled) subdiagonal entries of \(A\) and, optionally, the last row of \(A\). Several counterexamples and improvements to some of the results obtained by \textit{H. Niki, K. Harada, M. Morimoto} and \textit{M. Sakakihara} [ibid. 164--165, 587--600 (2004; Zbl 1057.65022)] are provided.