Volume 45, pp. 146-159, 2016.
On AMG methods with F-smoothing based on Chebyshev polynomials and their relation to AMGr
Florian Gossler and Reinhard Nabben
Abstract
MacLachlan, Manteuffel, and McCormick [Numer. Linear Algebra Appl., 13 (2006), pp. 599–620] introduced a new algebraic multigrid method, the so-called reduction-based algebraic multigrid method (AMGr). Different from typical multigrid methods, the smoother of the AMGr method is acting only on the fine-grid points. To analyze the AMGr method, different constants and parameters are used. Here, we further analyze the AMGr method. We show that the parameter used by MacLachlan et al. has another important property. We show that it is closely related to the root of a Chebyshev polynomial. This fact also explains the good performance of AMGr. By examining this relation with Chebyshev polynomials, we extend the concept of the AMGr method. We consider algebraic multigrid methods with fine-grid smoothers and AMG methods that are based on polynomial smoothing. We also establish bounds for the error propagation operator. The bound is minimal if Chebyshev polynomials are chosen. If more than one smoothing step is used, the error bound is smaller than the bound given for the AMGr method. For only one smoothing step, the polynomial-based AMG with Chebyshev polynomials coincides with the AMGr method. In this case, our convergence analysis gives some new explanation of the high performance of the AMGr method as well as the parameters used in the AMGr method.
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Key words
AMG, AMGr, Chebyshev polynomials
AMS subject classifications
65F10, 65F20
Links to the cited ETNA articles
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| [5] | Vol. 37 (2010), pp. 276-295 J. Brannick, A. Frommer, K. Kahl, S. MacLachlan, and L. Zikatanov: Adaptive reduction-based multigrid for nearly singular and highly disordered physical systems |
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