Abstract: theory for ASM. In the following we characterize the ASM preconditioner B by three parameters: C0 , ρ(E) , and ω , which enter via assumptions on the subspaces Vi and the bilinear forms ai(·, ·) (the approximate local problems). Assumption 14.6 (stable decomposition) There exists a constant C0 > 0 such that every u ∈ V admits a decomposition u = ∑N i=0 ui with ui ∈ Vi such that N ∑ i=0 ai(ui, ui) ≤ C 0 a(u, u) (14.29) Assumption 14.7 (strengthened Cauchy-Schwarz inequality) For i, j = 1 . . . N , let Ei,j = Ej,i ∈ [0, 1] be defined by the inequalities |a(ui, uj)| ≤ Ei,j a(ui, ui) a(uj, uj) ∀ ui ∈ Vi, uj ∈ Vj (14.30) By ρ(E) we denote the spectral radius of the symmetric matrix E = (Ei,j) ∈ RN×N . The particular assumption is that we have a nontrivial bound for ρ(E) to our disposal. Note that due to Ei,j ≤ 1 (Cauchy-Schwarz inequality), the trivial bound ρ(E) = ∥E∥2 ≤ √ ∥E∥1 ∥E∥∞ ≤ N always holds; for particular Schwarz methods one usually aims at bounds for ρ(E) which are independent of N . Ed. 2011 Iterative Solution of Large Linear Systems 14.2 Additive Schwarz methods (ASM) 159 Assumption 14.8 (local stability) There exists ω > 0 such that for all i = 1 . . . N : a(ui, ui) ≤ ω ai(ui, ui) ∀ ui ∈ Vi (14.31) Remark 14.9 The space V0 is not included in the definition of E ; as we will see below, this space is allowed to play a special role. Ei,j = 0 implies that the spaces Vi and Vj are orthogonal (in the a(·, ·) inner product). We will see below that small ρ(E) is desirable. We will also see below that a small C0 is desirable. The parameter ω represents a one-sided measure of the approximation properties of the approximate solvers ai . If the local solver is of (exact) Galerkin type, i.e, ai(u, v) ≡ a(u, v) for u, v ∈ Vi , then ω = 1 . However, this does not necessarily imply that Assumptions 14.6 and 14.7 are satisfied. Lemma 14.10 (P. L. Lions) Let PASM be defined by (14.23) resp. (14.24). Then, under Assumption 14.6, (i) PASM : V → V is a bijection, and a(u, u) ≤ C 0 a(PASM u, u) ∀ u ∈ V (14.32) (ii) Characterization of b(u, u) : b(u, u) = a(P−1 ASM u, u) = min { N ∑ i=0 ai(ui, ui) : u = N ∑ i=0 ui, ui ∈ Vi } (14.33) Proof: We make use of the fundamental identity (14.27) and Cauchy-Schwarz inequalites. Proof of (i): Let u ∈ V and u = ∑ i ui be a decomposition of the type guaranteed by Assumption 14.6. Then: a(u, u) = a(u, ∑ i ui) = ∑ i a(u, ui) = ∑ i ai(Pi u, ui) ≤ ∑ i √ ai(Pi u, Pi u) ai(ui, ui) = ∑ i √ a(u, Pi u) ai(ui, ui) ≤ √∑ i a(u, Pi u) √∑ i ai(ui, ui) = √ a(u, PASM u) √∑ i ai(ui, ui) ≤ √ a(u, PASM u)C0 √ a(u, u) This implies the estimate (14.32). In particular, it follows that PASM is injective, because with (14.32), PASM u = 0 implies a(u, u) = 0 , hence u = 0 . Due to finite dimension, we conclude that PASM is bijective. Proof of (ii): We first show that the minimum on the right-hand side of (14.33) cannot be smaller than a(P−1 ASM u, u) . To this end, we consider an arbitrary decomposition u = ∑ i ui with ui ∈ Vi and estimate a(P−1 ASM u, u) = ∑ i a(P −1 ASM u, ui) = ∑ i ai(PiP −1 ASM u, ui) ≤ √∑ i ai(PiP −1 ASM u, PiP −1 ASM u) √∑ i ai(ui, ui) = √∑ i a(P −1 ASM u, PiP −1 ASM u) √∑ i ai(ui, ui) = √ a(P−1 ASM u, u) √∑ i ai(ui, ui) In order to see that a(P−1 ASM u, u) is indeed the minimum of the right-hand side of (14.33), we define ui = PiP −1 ASM u . Obviously, ui ∈ Vi and ∑ i ui = u . Furthermore, ∑ i ai(ui, ui) = ∑ i ai(PiP −1 ASM u, PiP −1 ASM u) = ∑ i a(P −1 ASM u, PiP −1 ASM u) = a(P−1 ASM u, ∑ i PiP −1 ASM u) = a(P −1 ASM u, u) This concludes the proof. Iterative Solution of Large Linear Systems Ed. 2011 160 14 SUBSTRUCTURING METHODS The matrix P ′ ASM = B −1A from (14.23) is the matrix representation of the operator PASM . Since PASM is self-adjoint in the A -inner product (see Lemma 14.2), we can estimate the smallest and the largest eigenvalue of B−1A by: λmin(B −1A) = inf 0 ̸=u ∈V a(PASM u, u) a(u, u) , λmax(B −1A) = sup 0 ̸=u ∈V a(PASM u, u) a(u, u) (14.34) Lemma 14.10, (i) in conjunction with Assumption 14.6 readily yields λmin(B −1A) ≥ 1 C 0 An upper bound for λmax(B −1A) is obtained with the help of the following lemma. Lemma 14.11 Under Assumptions 14.7 and 14.8 we have ∥Pi∥A ≤ ω, i = 0 . . . N (14.35) a(PASM u, u) ≤ ω (1 + ρ(E)) a(u, u) for all u ∈ V (14.36) Proof: Again we make use of identity (14.27). We start with the proof of (14.35): From Assumption 14.8, (14.31) we infer for all u ∈ V : ∥Pi u∥2A = a(Pi u, Pi u) ≤ ω ai(Pi u, Pi u) = ω a(u, Pi u) ≤ ω ∥u∥A ∥Pi u∥A which implies (14.35). For the proof of (14.36), we observe that the space V0 is assumed to play a special role. We define