“…For elliptic problems, preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) methods with additive Schwarz preconditioners (ASM) as domain decomposition (DD) are a powerful tool for the development of fast and efficient solvers for the h-version as well as for the p-version of the FEM, see [1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 17, 21, 27-29, 31, 33, 34]. The extension to linear elasticity problems is straightforward, [9]. Based on Korn's inequality, [22], an optimal preconditioner is obtained by using a preconditioner for the potential equation for each component of the displacement u.…”