Two classes of methods for approximate matrix inversion with convergence orders p = 3 * 2 k +1 (Class 1) and p = 5 * 2 k −1 (Class 2), k ≥ 1 an integer, are given based on matrix multiplication and matrix addition. These methods perform less number of matrix multiplications compared to the known hyperpower method or pth-order method for the same orders and can be used to construct approximate inverse preconditioners for solving linear systems. Convergence, error, and stability analyses of the proposed classes of methods are provided. Theoretical results are justified with numerical results obtained by using the proposed methods of orders p = 7, 13 from Class 1 and the methods with orders p = 9, 19 from Class 2 to obtain polynomial preconditioners for preconditioning the biconjugate gradient (BICG) method for solving well-and ill-posed problems. From the literature, methods with orders p = 8, 16 belonging to a family developed by the effective representation of the pth-order method for orders p = 2 k , k is integer k ≥ 1, and other recently given high-order convergent methods of orders p = 6, 7, 8, 12 for approximate matrix inversion are also used to construct polynomial preconditioners for preconditioning the BICG method to solve the considered problems. Numerical comparisons are given to show the applicability, stability, and computational complexity of the proposed methods by paying attention to the asymptotic convergence rates. It is shown that the BICG method converges very quickly when applied to solve the preconditioned system. Therefore, the cost of constructing these preconditioners is amortized if the preconditioner is to be reused over several systems of same coefficient matrix with different right sides. KEYWORDS approximate inverse preconditioners, biconjugate gradient method, error bounds, Fredholm integral equation of the first kind, ill-posed problems, well-posed problems Numer Linear Algebra Appl. 2017;24:e2111.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/nla

High order iterative methods with a recurrence formula for approximate matrix inversion are proposed such that the matrix multiplications and additions in the calculation of matrix polynomials for the hyperpower methods of orders of convergence p=4k+3, where k≥1 is integer, are reduced through factorizations and nested loops in which the iterations are defined using a recurrence formula. Therefore, the computational cost is lowered from κ=4k+3 to κ=k+4 matrix multiplications per step. An algorithm is proposed to obtain regularized solution of ill-posed discrete problems with noisy data by constructing approximate Schur-Block Incomplete LU (Schur-BILU) preconditioner and by preconditioning the one step stationary iterative method. From the proposed methods of approximate matrix inversion, the methods of orders p=7,11,15,19 are applied for approximating the Schur complement matrices. This algorithm is applied to solve two problems of Fredholm integral equation of first kind. The first example is the harmonic continuation problem and the second example is Phillip’s problem. Furthermore, experimental study on some nonsymmetric linear systems of coefficient matrices with strong indefinite symmetric components from Harwell-Boeing collection is also given. Numerical analysis for the regularized solutions of the considered problems is given and numerical comparisons with methods from the literature are provided through tables and figures.

The motivation of the present work concerns two objectives. Firstly, a predictor-corrector iterative method of convergence order p = 45 requiring 10 matrix by matrix multiplications per iteration is proposed for computing the Moore-Penrose inverse of a nonzero matrix of rank = r. Convergence and a priori error analysis of the proposed method are given. Secondly, the numerical solution to the general linear least squares problems by an algorithm using the proposed method and the perturbation error analysis are provided. Furthermore, experiments are conducted on the ill-posed problem of one-dimensional image restoration and on some test problems from Harwell-Boeing collection. Obtained numerical results show the applicability, stability, and the estimated order of convergence of the proposed method.

Using the general method of Owe Axelsson given in 1986 for incomplete factorization of M‐matrices in block‐matrix form, we give a recursive approach to construct incomplete block‐matrix factorization of M‐matrices by proposing a two‐step iterative method for the approximation of the inverse of diagonal pivoting block matrices at each stage of the recursion. For various predescribed tolerances in the accuracy of the approximation of the inverses, the obtained incomplete block‐matrix factorizations are used to precondition the iterative methods as one‐step stationary iterative (OSSI) method and biconjugate gradient stabilized method (BI‐CGSTAB). Certain applications are conducted on M‐matrices occurring from the discretization of two Dirichlet boundary value problems of Laplace's equation on a rectangle using finite difference method. Numerical results justify that the given incomplete block‐matrix factorization of M‐matrices using the two‐step iterative method to approximate the inverse of diagonal pivoting block matrices at each stage of the recursion give robust preconditioners. The obtained results are presented through tables and figures.

The motivation of the present work is to propose high order iterative methods with a recurrence formula for approximate matrix inversion and provide regularized solution of Fredholm integral equation of first kind with noisy data by an algorithm using the proposed methods. From the given family of methods of orders p = 7,11,15,19 are applied to solve problems of Fredholm integral equation of first kind. From the literature, iterative methods of same orders are used to solve the considered problems and numerical comparisons are shown through tables and figures.