Sparse solution of the Lyapunov equation for large-scale interconnected systems

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Abstract: We consider the problem of computing an approximate banded solution of the continuous-time Lyapunov equation underlineAunderlineX+underlineXunderlineAT=underlineP, where the coefficient matrices underlineA and underlineP are large, symmetric banded matrices. The (sparsity) pattern of underlineA describes the interconnection structure of a large-scale interconnected system. Recently, it has been shown that the entries of the solution underlineX are spatially localized or decaying away from a banded pattern. We show that the decay of the entries of underlineX is faster if the condition number of underlineA is smaller. By exploiting the decay of entries of underlineX, we develop two computationally efficient methods for approximating underlineX by a banded matrix. For a well-conditioned and sparse banded underlineA, the computational and memory complexities of the methods scale linearly with the state dimension. We perform extensive numerical experiments that confirm this, and that demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed methods. The methods proposed in this paper can be generalized to (sparsity) patterns of underlineA and underlineP that are more general than banded matrices. The results of this paper open the possibility for developing computationally efficient methods for approximating the solution of the large-scale Riccati equation by a sparse matrix.




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