Smoothed aggregation multigrid for markov chains

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-61

  De Sterck, H ^a   Manteuffel, T A ^b   McCormick, S F ^b   Miller, K ^a   Pearson, J ^a   Ruge, J ^b   Sanders, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic multigrid; Markov chain; Multilevel method; Smoothed aggregation; Stationary probability vector

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CHAINS; EFFICIENCY; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AGGREGATION MULTIGRID METHOD; ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRIDS; MULTIGRIDS; MULTILEVEL METHOD; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PROBABILITY VECTOR; SMOOTHED AGGREGATION; SMOOTHED AGGREGATION MULTIGRID; SPARSE MARKOV CHAINS; STATIONARY PROBABILITY VECTOR;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 77249114201     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080719157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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