Low-rank update of preconditioners for the inexact Newton method with SPD Jacobian

  • Authors:
  • L. Bergamaschi;R. Bru;A. MartíNez

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Methods and Models for Scientific Applications, University of Padova, Italy;Instituto de Matemática Multidisciplinar, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain;Department of Mathematical Methods and Models for Scientific Applications, University of Padova, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this note preconditioners for the Conjugate Gradient method are studied to solve the Newton system with a symmetric positive definite Jacobian. In particular, we define a sequence of preconditioners built by means of BFGS rank-two updates. Reasonable conditions are derived which guarantee that the preconditioned matrices are not far from the identity in a matrix norm. Some notes on the implementation of the corresponding inexact Newton method are given and some numerical results on a number of model problems illustrate the efficiency of the proposed preconditioners.