Preconditioning for accurate solutions of ill-conditioned linear systems.

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Abstract: This paper develops the preconditioning technique as a method to address the accuracy issue caused by ill-conditioning. Given a preconditioner M for an ill-conditioned linear system Ax=b, we show that, if the inverse of the preconditioner M−1 can be applied to vectors accurately, then the linear system can be solved accurately. A stability concept called inverse-equivalent accuracy is introduced to describe higher accuracy that is achieved and an error analysis will be presented. As an application, we use the preconditioning approach to accurately compute a few smallest eigenvalues of certain ill-conditioned matrices. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the error analysis and the performance of the methods.






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