In numerical linear algebra, the Chebyshev iteration is an iterative method for determining the solutions of a system of linear equations. The method is named after Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev.
Chebyshev iteration avoids the computation of inner products as is necessary for the other nonstationary methods. For some distributed-memory architectures these inner products are a bottleneck with respect to efficiency. The price one pays for avoiding inner products is that the method requires enough knowledge about spectrum of the coefficient matrix A, that is an upper estimate for the upper eigenvalue and lower estimate for the lower eigenvalue. There are modifications of the method for nonsymmetric matrices A.
Example code in MATLAB
function [x] = SolChebyshev002(A, b, x0, iterNum, lMax, lMin) d = (lMax + lMin) / 2; c = (lMax - lMin) / 2; preCond = eye(size(A)); % Preconditioner x = x0; r = b - A * x; for i = 1:iterNum % size(A, 1) z = linsolve(preCond, r); if (i == 1) p = z; alpha = 1/d; else if (i == 2) beta = (1/2) * (c * alpha)^2 alpha = 1/(d - beta / alpha); p = z + beta * p; else beta = (c * alpha / 2)^2; alpha = 1/(d - beta / alpha); p = z + beta * p; end; x = x + alpha * p; r = b - A * x; %(= r - alpha * A * p) if (norm(r) < 1e-15), break; end; % stop if necessary end; endSee also
- Iterative method. Linear systems
- List of numerical analysis topics. Solving systems of linear equations
- Jacobi iteration
- Gauss–Seidel method
- Modified Richardson iteration
- Successive over-relaxation
- Conjugate gradient method
- Generalized minimal residual method
- Biconjugate gradient method
- Iterative Template Library
- IML++
- "Chebyshev iteration method", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]
External links
References
Barrett, Richard; Michael, Berry; Tony, Chan; Demmel, James; Donato, June; Dongarra, Jack; Eijkhout, Victor; Pozo, Roldan; Romine, Charles; Van der Vorst, Henk (1994). Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods (2nd ed.). SIAM. http://www.netlib.org/linalg/html_templates/Templates.html ↩
Gutknecht, Martin; Röllin, Stefan (2002). "The Chebyshev iteration revisited". Parallel Computing. 28 (2): 263–283. doi:10.1016/S0167-8191(01)00139-9. hdl:20.500.11850/145926. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩