Krylov Subspace

In linear algebra, the order-''r'' Krylov subspace generated by an ''n''-by-''n'' matrix ''A'' and a vector ''b'' of dimension ''n'' is the linear subspace spanned by the images of ''b'' under the first ''r'' powers of ''A'' (starting from $A^0=I$), that is,
:$\mathcal_r(A,b) = \operatorname \, \.$

Background

The concept is named after Russian applied mathematician and naval engineer Alexei Krylov, who published a paper about it in 1931.

Properties

* $\mathcal_r(A,b),A\mathcal_r(A,b)\subset \mathcal_(A,b)$.
* Vectors $\$ are linearly independent until r, and $\mathcal_r(A,b) \subset \mathcal_(A,b)$. Thus, $r_0$ denotes the maximal dimension of a Krylov subspace.
* The maximal dimension satisfies $r_0\leq 1 + \operatorname A$ and $r_0 \leq n+1$.
* More exactly, r_0\leq \deg (A)/math>, where $p(A)$ is the minimal polynomial of $A$. Furthermore, there exists a $b$ such that r_0 = \deg (A)/math>.
* $\mathcal_r(A,b)$ is a cyclic submodule generated by $b$ of the torsion k /math>-module $(k^n)^A$, where $k^n$ is the linear space on $k$.
* $k^n$ can be decomposed as the direct sum of Krylov subspaces.

Use

Krylov subspaces are used in algorithms for finding approximate solutions to high-dimensional linear algebra problems. Many linear dynamical system tests in control theory, especially those related to controllability and observability, involve checking the rank of the Krylov subspace. These tests are equivalent to finding the span of the Gramians associated with the system/output maps so the uncontrollable and unobservable subspaces are simply the orthogonal complement to the Krylov subspace.

Modern iterative methods such as Arnoldi iteration can be used for finding one (or a few) eigenvalues of large sparse matrices or solving large systems of linear equations. They try to avoid matrix-matrix operations, but rather multiply vectors by the matrix and work with the resulting vectors. Starting with a vector $b$, one computes $A b$, then one multiplies that vector by $A$ to find $A^2 b$ and so on. All algorithms that work this way are referred to as Krylov subspace methods; they are among the most successful methods currently available in numerical linear algebra.

Issues

Because the vectors usually soon become almost linearly dependent due to the properties of power iteration, methods relying on Krylov subspace frequently involve some orthogonalization scheme, such as Lanczos iteration for Hermitian matrices or Arnoldi iteration for more general matrices.

Existing methods

The best known Krylov subspace methods are the Conjugate gradient, IDR(s) (Induced dimension reduction), GMRES (generalized minimum residual), BiCGSTAB (biconjugate gradient stabilized), QMR (quasi minimal residual), TFQMR (transpose-free QMR) and MINRES (minimal residual method).

See also

* Iterative method, which has a section on Krylov subspace methods

References

Further reading

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* Gerard Meurant and Jurjen Duintjer Tebbens: ”Krylov methods for nonsymmetric linear systems - From theory to computations”, Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol.57, (Oct. 2020). , url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55251-0.
* Iman Farahbakhsh: "Krylov Subspace Methods with Application in Incompressible Fluid Flow Solvers", Wiley, (Sep., 2020).

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