A Kronecker product approximate preconditioner for SANs

Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 8-9, 2004, Pages 723-752

  Langville, Amy N ^a   Stewart, William J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilinear algebra; Nearest Kronecker products; Preconditioning; Stochastic automata networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044267924     PISSN: 10705325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nla.344     Document Type: Article

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