The method of subspace corrections (Q5931480)

The article presents an overview on the method of subspace corrections, which provides a unified view of many iterative procedures in numerical mathematics, e.g. Jacobi- and Gauss-Seidel iteration, successive overrelaxation, multigrid methods and domain decomposition methods. It is based on a (not necessarily direct) decomposition of the underlying space into subspaces and on corresponding projections, defining restrictions of the given problem to the subspaces. Multigrid and algebraic multigrid methods are discussed as main application, and also some nonlinear models like obstacle problems and the harmonic map problem are considered.