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A New Convergence Proof for the Multigrid Method Including the V-Cycle

Dietrich Braess, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1983 - 
- Vol. 20, Iss: 5, pp 967-975
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The presented proof applies to procedures with any number of smoothing iterations and to the V-cycle and proves convergence under natural assumptions on the discretization and the elliptic problem.
Abstract
For a positive definite finite element equation we describe a multigrid iteration and prove convergence under natural assumptions on the discretization and the elliptic problem. Hitherto existing convergence proofs require a sufficiently large number of smoothing iterations and exclude the “V-cycle”. The presented proof applies to procedures with any number of smoothing iterations and to the V-cycle.

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The convergence rate of a multigrid method with Gauss-Seidel relaxation for the Poisson equation

TL;DR: The numerical solution of the Poisson equation is treated by a multigrid method for a uniform grid with smoothing effect of the Gaus-Seidel relaxation by a discrete seminorm which is weaker than the energy norm.