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Wolfgang Börsch-supan

Lower bounds for eigenvalues of a quadratic form relative to a positive quadratic form

Abstract : A method is presented for the calculation of lower bounds to eigenvalues of operators that arise from variational problems for one quadratic form relative to a positive definite quadratic form. Eigenvalue problems of this kind occur, for example, in the theory of buckling of continuous linear elastic systems. The technique used is a modification of one introduced earlier, (1) sections II and IVB, for the determination of lower bounds to eigenvalues of semi-bounded self-adjoint operators. Other methods for the latter problem can be carried over without essential changes. The particular difficulty in the case we consider is that some operators which enter the calculation for the lo…

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Tridiagonal preconditioning for Poisson-like difference equations with flat grids: Application to incompressible atmospheric flow

AbstractThe convergence of many iterative procedures, in particular that of the conjugate gradient method, strongly depends on the condition number of the linear system to be solved. In cases with a large condition number, therefore, preconditioning is often used to transform the system into an equivalent one, with a smaller condition number and therefore faster convergence. For Poisson-like difference equations with flat grids, the vertical part of the difference operator is dominant and tridiagonal and can be used for preconditioning. Such a procedure has been applied to incompressible atmospheric flows to preserve incompressibility, where a system of Poisson-like difference equations is …

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Residuenabschätzung für Polynom-Nullstellen mittels Lagrange-Interpolation

If, for each zero of a polynomial, an approximation is known, estimates for the errors of these approximations are given, based on the evaluation of the polynomial at these points. The procedure can be carried over to the case of multiple roots and root clusters using derivatives up to the orderk - 1, wherek is the multiplicity of the cluster.

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Stability of stationary solutions of a one-dimensional parabolic equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions

for some x in [0, rr]. The guiding idea of this paper is to observe the changes in the stability behavior of the solutions if we perturb the autonomous problem intro- ducing a forcing term g. In [8] it was shown that iff and g are related by a boundedness condi- tion (see condition (* ) in Theorem 3.1) then there exists a stable solution of (1.1) “close” to each stable solution of (1.2). We want to call these stable solutions of (1.1)

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