Theoretical and computable optimal subspace expansions for matrix eigenvalue problems

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Abstract: Consider the optimal subspace expansion problem for the matrix eigenvalue problem Ax=lambdax: Which vector w in the current subspace mathcalV, after multiplied by A, provides an optimal subspace expansion for approximating a desired eigenvector x in the sense that x has the smallest angle with the expanded subspace mathcalVw=mathcalV+mspanAw, i.e., wopt=argmaxwinmathcalVcosangle(mathcalVw,x)? This problem is important as many iterative methods construct nested subspaces that successively expand mathcalV to mathcalVw. An expression of wopt by Ye (Linear Algebra Appl., 428 (2008), pp. 911--918) for A general, but it could not be exploited to construct a computable (nearly) optimally expanded subspace. He turns to deriving a maximization characterization of cosangle(mathcalVw,x) for a {em given} winmathcalV when A is Hermitian. We generalize Ye's maximization characterization to the general case and find its maximizer. Our main contributions consist of explicit expressions of wopt, (I−PV)Awopt and the optimally expanded subspace mathcalVwopt for A general, where PV is the orthogonal projector onto mathcalV. These results are fully exploited to obtain computable optimally expanded subspaces within the framework of the standard, harmonic, refined, and refined harmonic Rayleigh--Ritz methods. We show how to efficiently implement the proposed subspace expansion approaches. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our computable optimal expansions.




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