Recursively accelerated multilevel aggregation for markov chains

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1652-1671

  De Sterck, H ^a   Miller, K ^a   Sanders, G ^b   Winlaw, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Algebraic multigrid; Markov chain; Multilevel method; Quadratic programming; Stationary probability vector

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACCELERATION METHOD; AGGREGATION ALGORITHMS; ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRIDS; MULTIGRIDS; MULTILEVEL METHOD; MULTILEVELS; PROBABILITY VECTOR; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; STATIONARY PROBABILITY VECTOR; W CYCLE;

QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77953850404     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090770114     Document Type: Article

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