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50/1999

On H^2-Matrices

Wolfgang Hackbusch, Boris N. Khoromskij and Stefan A. Sauter

Abstract

A class of matrices (H-matrices) has recently been introduced by one of the authors. These matrices have the following properties: (i) They are sparse in the sense that only few data are needed for their representation. (ii) The matrix-vector multiplication is of almost linear complexity. (iii) In general, sums and products of these matrices are no longer in the same set, but their truncations to the H-matrix format are again of almost linear complexity. (iv) The same statement holds for the inverse of an H-matrix. The term "almost linear complexity" used above means that estimates are given by O(n loga n): The logarithmic factor can be avoided by a further improvement, which is described in the present paper. We prove that the storage requirements and the cost of the matrix-vector multiplication is strictly linear in the dimension n; while still (full) system matrices of the boundary element method can be approximated up to the discretisation error.

Received:
Jul 16, 1999
Published:
Jul 16, 1999
MSC Codes:
65F05, 65F30, 65F50, 65N38, 68P05, 45B05, 35C20
Keywords:
hierarchical matrices, hierarchical bases, full matrices, fast matrix-vector multiplication, bem, fem

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