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G-2020-41

TriCG and TriMR: Two iterative methods for symmetric and quasi-definite systems

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We introduce iterative methods named TriCG and TriMR for solving symmetric quasi-definite systems based on the orthogonal tridiagonalization process proposed by Saunders, Simon and Yip in 1988. TriCG and TriMR are tantamount to preconditioned BLCG and BLMINRES with two right-hand sides in which the two approximate solutions are summed at each iteration, but require less storage and work per iteration. We evaluate the performance of TriCG and TriMR on linear systems generated from the SuiteSparse Matrix Collection and from discretized and stablized Stokes equations. We compare TriCG and TriMR with SYMMLQ and MINRES, the recommended Krylov methods for symmetric and indefinite systems. In all our experiments, TriCG and TriMR terminate earlier than SYMMLQ and MINRES on a residual-based stopping condition with an improvement of up to 50% in terms of number of iterations. They also terminate more reliably than \BLCG and \BLMINRES. Experiments in quadruple and octuple precision suggest that loss of orthogonality in the basis vectors is significantly less pronounced in TriCG and TriMR than in BLCG and BLMINRES.

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This cahier was revised in February 2021

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