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47/2004

${\mathcal H}^2$-matrix arithmetics in linear complexity

Steffen Börm

Abstract

For hierarchical matrices, approximations of the matrix-matrix sum and product can be computed in almost linear complexity, and using these matrix operations it is possible to construct the matrix inverse, efficient preconditioners or solutions of certain matrix equations.

${\mathcal H}^2$-matrices are a variant of hierarchical matrices that allow us to perform certain operations, like the matrix-vector product, in "true" linear complexity, but until now it was not clear whether matrix arithmetic operations could also reach this, in some sense optimal, complexity.

We present algorithms that compute the best-approximation of the sum and product of two ${\mathcal H}^2$-matrices in a prescribed ${\mathcal H}^2$-matrix format, and we prove that this computation can be accomplished in linear complexity.

Received:
Jul 22, 2004
Published:
Jul 22, 2004
MSC Codes:
65F30
Keywords:
hierarchical matrices, formatted matrix operations

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2006 Repository Open Access
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\(\mathscr {H}^2\)-matrix arithmetics in linear complexity

In: Computing, 77 (2006) 1, pp. 1-28