Preconditioned Lanczos method for generalized Toeplitz eigenvalue problems

  • Authors:
  • Yuan-Yuan Wang;Lin-Zhang Lu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematical Science, Xiamen University, China;School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Guizhou Normal University, China and School of Mathematical Science, Xiamen University, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We employ the sine transform-based preconditioner to precondition the shifted Toeplitz matrix A"n-@rB"n involved in the Lanczos method to compute the minimum eigenvalue of the generalized symmetric Toeplitz eigenvalue problem A"nx=@lB"nx, where A"n and B"n are given matrices of suitable sizes. The sine transform-based preconditioner can improve the spectral distribution of the shifted Toeplitz matrix and, hence, can speed up the convergence rate of the preconditioned Lanczos method. The sine transform-based preconditioner can be implemented efficiently by the fast transform algorithm. A convergence analysis shows that the preconditioned Lanczos method converges sufficiently fast, and numerical results show that this method is highly effective for a large matrix.