Stability and preconditioning for a hybrid approximation on the sphere (Q635808)

The authors propose a new preconditioning scheme for a linear system with a saddle-point structure arising from a hybrid approximation scheme on the sphere. The approximation scheme combines (local) spherical radial basis functions and (global) spherical polynomials. The authors show that the proposed preconditioner is spectrally equivalent to a certain non-constant diagonal matrix. Numerical experiments are also discussed to prove the quality of the new preconditioner.