Date
Thu, 07 May 2015
Time
14:00 - 15:00
Location
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, nr Didcot
Speaker
Dr. Jennifer Pestana
Organisation
University of Manchester

Although Toeplitz matrices are often dense, matrix-vector products with Toeplitz matrices can be quickly performed via circulant embedding and the fast Fourier transform. This makes their solution by preconditioned Krylov subspace methods attractive. 

For a wide class of symmetric Toeplitz matrices, symmetric positive definite circulant preconditioners that cluster eigenvalues have been proposed. MINRES or the conjugate gradient method can be applied to these problems and descriptive convergence theory based on eigenvalues guarantees fast convergence. 

In contrast, although circulant preconditioners have been proposed for nonsymmetric Toeplitz systems, guarantees of fast convergence are generally only available for CG for the normal equations (CGNE). This is somewhat unsatisfactory because CGNE has certain drawbacks, including slow convergence and a larger condition number. In this talk we discuss a simple alternative symmetrization of nonsymmetric Toeplitz matrices, that allows us to use MINRES to solve the resulting linear system. We show how existing circulant preconditioners for nonsymmetric Toeplitz matrices can be straightforwardly adapted to this situation and give convergence estimates similar to those in the symmetric case.

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