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A class of matrices (H2-matrices) has recently been introduced for storing discretisations of elliptic problems and integral operators from the BEM.
These matrices have the following properties:
We introduce the basic ideas of H- and H2-matrices and present an algorithm that adaptively computes approximations of general matrices in the latter format.